Getting on a train late (or off early) and being fined

Getting on a train late (or off early) and being fined

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Jarcy

1,559 posts

274 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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What about this scenario:
If A - C via B costs £10, but A - B costs £35 and C - B costs £5.
Then, is it legitimate to buy A - C, plus C - B (total £15) and then get off at B?
Or are you required to stay sat in your seat through B, change train at C and travel back to B?


Edited by Jarcy on Monday 28th July 16:13

Zod

35,295 posts

257 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Sheepshanks said:
W124Bob said:
Another bit of small print which many miss, leading to possibly having to buy another ticket, is buying online. You must have the card with which the ticket was purchased, so if you've bought a ticket on behalf of someone they would need you're card to validate the ticket.
Hmmm..I think you're confusing the issue of needing the card in order to collect the tickets. You don't need if, for example, the tickets were posted to you.
Not so, you can give details of a different card to be produced by the person travelling. I did this for my mother recently.

V8 Fettler

7,019 posts

131 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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A better scenario is to remove all public money from the railways. Let the true free market prevail

Gixer

4,463 posts

247 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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Interesting as I often do contract work at various stations and on many occasion have overheard customers asking if they can get off part way and then board another train to continue their journey and the answer is always yes of course you can.

However train tickets are so unnecessarily complicated with advanced, on the day etc etc and the prices vary so much. I bought an advanced first class vigin ticket London to Manchester to collect a car a couple of years ago. That was £30 and was for a specific seat on a specific train, those terms were one of the reasons it was cheap. If I had bought a dearer open ticket I could have caught any train, or perhaps any off peak train and could no doubt hop off and back on anther part way.

FiF

43,960 posts

250 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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The other issue is rail companies not getting their act together.

BHM New Street to Euston, service cancelled,
Customer services annotate ticket to show this and advise which train to get on.
Announcement on train, which is heaving, not even space to sit down on the floor, that tickets for any other train service will not be accepted.
Obviously it wasn't an issue as common sense prevailed, but there were a few travellers who almost got off at International as they were so worried.

Joeguard1990

1,181 posts

125 months

Monday 28th July 2014
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My SouthEastern Rail monthly train ticket specifically states on it BETWEEN "first stop" and "London Terminals".

I can get on or off at any stop in between the two destinations no issues and have been doing so for ages.

But then again I'm not trying to con the company by paying less to travel a further distance so I'm not sure why the OP's train company even offers this reduced ticket price in the first place when the distance is greater...