 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Because they know they can sell the tickets and it gives them more options around pricing if they leave it later.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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UK 's National Rail Enquires won't let let you book latter than 8th October. Less than 3months. 
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That's the way it was is and will be. I can only book Virgin East Coast until 11 Oct today so I guess its a railway thing (and maybe a lot to do with the horizon for engineering works - luckily the sky doesn't need regular maintenance!)
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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The three month rule does not apply during winter. They open up extra blocks in advance on specific days - it's mayhem.
The three month rule only applies to TGVs - if you do the Eurostar to Lyon, you can book the forward TER travel to Moutiers/Aime/Landry/Bourg well in advance. But you don't get any guarantee of a seat on the local TER trains.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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Perhaps they haven't finalised their timetables, or perhaps what trains they will be running. I found a fascinating book last year on train scheduling, timetabling and simulation. It appears rather complex.
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SNCF have now published timetables for most TGV routes up to 12 December 2015.
But they still stick to the three month rule through the Autumn period.
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Thanks all for your replies and insight.
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I found a fascinating book last year on train scheduling, timetabling and simulation.
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I still haven't worked out if johnE was being ironic!
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@andy1234, It was actually very interesting. I hadn't really known about blocks, acceleration speads, friction levels, (it depends a bit on the weather) signalling systems, scheduling connections, platform allocations at stations and slotting trains in on the dfferent blocks. Then they had some chapters on how to simulate whole regional networks. All really good reading. AJP Taylor wrote a fascinating book presenting his hypothesis that the first world war was caused by the railway timetables drawn up in case of mobilisation being inflexible.
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@johnE, thanks I didn't mean to poke fun at you. The internet's a wonderful thing for most of the time. It allowed me to quickly see more of AJP Taylor's hypothesis. My father built a 5" gauge model railway and I still have some of his musing and jottings on how the points and signalling should work to avoid the small trains crashing into one another. That's something we all take for granted in today's world.
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FAQ
Anybody know why or have a work around 
