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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by sweeneyrod on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:25PM (#20779173)
> The problem at the moment in off-peak times is that they dare not reduce the price because there are trains that run during the day which fill up, and there's no good way of differentiating fares between the ones which do and the ones which don't.

Isn't there? Travelling from Leeds to London at 7-9am Monday costs several times as much as at 2pm Sunday, and I assume that's because the operators can differentiate which journeys are popular (and furthermore which ones carry large numbers of business people who can afford/expense higher fares).

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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by johnday on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @10:10AM (#20809739)
Currently the process is that tickets are sold in tiers - the closer to sold out, the closer to maximum price. The only control over maximum price is whether it's peak or off peak hours. So there are actually two confounding factors
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