The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 4 (July 1, 1939)
“A Popular Feature.”
“A Popular Feature.”
Interavailability of passenger tickets is proving a popular feature of the summer holiday programme. One of the most interesting arrangements is that existing between the L. M. & S., L. & N.E. and G.W. Companies in their long-distance services. This permits passengers holding return tickets to return by any recognised alternative route between any pair of stations served by two or more of the companies. It also permits of break of journey at any point
en route. Somewhat similar, and equally useful, is the plan agreed upon by the Southern and G.W. systems. In this case, the facility not only applies to long-distance rail journeys, but also covers ticket interavailability on the Channel Islands steamships, run by the Southern from Southampton, and by the Great Western from Weymouth. Further afield, most bookings between British and continental points allow of the return journey being made by an alternative route if the passenger so wishes, thereby extending very considerably the area a tourist may take in during his travels. Interavailability of passenger tickets as between rail and road grows apace, especially as many road services now are largely under rail control. The G.W. and L. & N.E. Companies are to the fore in developing this privilege. In
the air, too, there is the closest co-operation between many air carriers and the railways, and so far as Railway Air Services are concerned on almost all routes covered there is complete interavailability as between air and rail movement.