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Rail Settlement Plan (RSP) is a division of the Rail Delivery Group in the United Kingdom. It provides a wide range of common services to the UK's train operating companies and third-party providers of information and retail services. It was founded in 1995. UK rail ticket background
In the ticketing system of the British rail network, tickets are normally issued to and from individual stations.In some instances, when there is more than one station in a town or other locality—especially where these are on different routes—it may be desirable for passengers to be able to travel to one station and back from another, or more generally to be able to choose which of the ...
A map of England, Wales and Scotland showing the approximate boundaries of each NLC "zone", as described in the accompanying table.. The National Location Code (NLC) is a four-digit number allocated to every railway station and ticket issuing point in Great Britain for use with the ticketing system on the British railway network.
A pair of split level platforms in Harvard station of the Boston-Cambridge MBTA Red Line service. The upper (outbound) platform at left is empty, while the lower (inbound) platform is relatively crowded. A split platform or separate platform is a station that has a platform for each track, split onto two or more levels. This configuration ...
A train ticket is a transit pass ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads ), a set itinerary ...
Ticketing arrangements on the UK's railways are notoriously arcane, but you can use the rules to get cheaper fares. [citation needed]The routeing guide makes possible some of the recently publicised ticketing anomalies in the UK rail network such as saving money by purchasing tickets for long journeys as several discrete journeys instead, for example. [6]
An APTIS travel ticket from Leamington Spa to Bradford-on-Avon. All printed details are identified by a number and summarised below. Tickets issued from British Rail's APTIS system had a considerable amount of detail, presented in a consistent, standard format. The design for all tickets was created by Colin Goodall.
Facilities at the station are minimal – there are a few chairs and timetable information is provided. Help points, giving next train information, were installed in 2010. There is no ticket office, but a self-service ticket machine is available. [6] As of 2024, a new display for live train times was installed, providing information for rail users.