A train question involving portions of a journey.

LittleMrsThrifty

Shelldean wrote: »

Personally I don;t see the problem with OP doing it that BUT beware this was printed in the Telegraph recently - couple charged £114 for getting off train to early.
It Appears that the cheap ticket was valid from A-D and the couple decided to get off at C, and got charged the extra( either a set price or twice the single fare I think, adn they got charged twice the singel fare) as the station the couple exited at wasn't part of the promotion. So be careful

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This is also the case when getting on the train - particularly where there are electronic barriers. So if you book a train from A-E and get on at B you might find your original ticket is completely invalid.

wealdroam

catch22 wrote: »

That is slightly incorrect.. As ones tickets on the first leg would of been stamped. Nearly always in these instances there are two tickets. One being the 'big daddy' so to speak. Without it the other ticket is unusable.

So is that the answer to your question in your original post, Catch22?

I now see why you are called Catch22...

Which comes first... the question or the answer?

All we need now is a definition of a 'big daddy' ticket.

:beer:

catch22

Sorry guys, I've been in hospital. By 'big daddy' I mean the following: You have two tickets for the whole journey, without ticket A ticket B is invalid. Therefore its the 'big daddy' or being pc, it could be 'big mummy' as it's the main ticket. Ticket A gets stamped always on Birmingham-London. Ticket A must be shown with ticket B for the Vic-Gatwick part of the journey.

dzug1

catch22 wrote: »

Sorry guys, I've been in hospital. By 'big daddy' I mean the following: You have two tickets for the whole journey, without ticket A ticket B is invalid. Therefore its the 'big daddy' or being pc, it could be 'big mummy' as it's the main ticket. Ticket A gets stamped always on Birmingham-London. Ticket A must be shown with ticket B for the Vic-Gatwick part of the journey.

But ticket A is going to be retained by the barriers at Euston where its validity ceases so ain't going to be available for inspection whether it's been stamped or not.

That is if there is a ticket A - my experience is that cross London journeys are one ticket for the whole lot. And they they don't get stamped as that may prevent the underground barriers from working.

There may be separate seat reservation tickets - but that's a separate issue. They don't stamp them anyway.

robk2468

catch22 - If you have time I would send an E-Mail to the train company and get it in writing that you can break the journey, if there are any probs you can then show this to the ticket police.