Cross-border refunds

[RPI]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

The TVM's at Enterprise stations until Dec 2013 offered tickets to all NI destinations, this is no longer the case. Particularly at weekends two tickets would be massively cheaper that a through ticket.

In my experience, that isn't generally the case because through tickets are calculated as Enterprise plus an arbitrary supplement, rather than on distance.

Take a journey from Drogheda to Coleraine. A Drogheda to Belfast Day return is around €29. An NIR return from Belfast to Coleraine is £17.50. A through ticket is, from memory, about €34.

The only day when I can think of when two tickets would be cheaper than one might be on Sundays, when NIR sell £7 day ramblers for all journeys over that value, but I think even then you'd have to be travelling to Derry to get the full benefit.

It's worth adding that another issue with using two tickets is that NIR do not issue open returns.