GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway) selling brand name restricted tickets.

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Dear Department for Transport,

I would like to request the following information please:

Currently GTR (Govia Thameslink Railway) are selling separate "Any Permitted" / "Not Gatwick Express" / "Southern Only" / "Thameslink Only" tickets. However from looking at the TSA it appears that TOCs can only restrict tickets by TOC or by route but not by brand name (so the only tickets that should be sold are "Any Permitted" and "GTR Only" tickets).

Therefore i would like to know:

1. Are GTR allowed to sell brand name restricted tickets like they are doing at the moment with their "Not Gatwick Express" / "Southern Only" / "Thameslink Only" tickets?

2. If the answer to 1. is yes could you please provide details and documents which state that this is allowed and state that TOCs are allowed to restrict tickets by brand name?

3. If the answer to 1. is no could you please advise if you are planning to instruct them to withdraw these brand name restricted "Not Gatwick Express" / "Southern Only" / "Thameslink Only" fares? And if so when will they be removing them?

Thank you very much.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Johnson

Department for Transport

Dear Mr Johnson,

I am writing to acknowledge receipt of your request for information which
has been allocated reference number P0014671.

A response will be issued to you in due course.

Regards,

Ivan Pocock
Department for Transport
FOI Advice Team
Information & Security Division
Zone D/04
Ashdown House
Sedlescombe Road North
St Leonards on Sea
East Sussex
TN37 7GA

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R Wright left an annotation ()

It might have been more helpful for the DFT to refer to page 12 of the National Rail Conditions of Travel, which says that:

" Restrictions may be applied to services departing or arriving at certain times; to the services of one or more specified Train Companies; or to groups of train services indicated by a particular brand name or identity."