Does the name printed on a train ticket have to be your own name ?

peachyprice

dggar wrote: »

Go back to post #9.
If you buy a ticket a ticket on line and have it printed out at a station ticket machine it will almost certainly have your name on it no matter which train company site you used to do the on line purchase.

Nope.

Collected my tickets today, printed on a ticket machine at my local NR station, bought from the GWR website, no name anywhere on them.

Even collected them with a different card than that used to purchased them with, which, according to some, is impossible

yorkie2

peachyprice wrote: »

Even collected them with a different card than that used to purchased them with, which, according to some, is impossible

It depends on which website you use, some websites set bookings made through them to 'any card' collection, while some set it to 'same card' collection.

peachyprice

yorkie2 wrote: »

It depends on which website you use, some websites set bookings made through them to 'any card' collection, while some set it to 'same card' collection.

I used GWR. It says on their own website that you need the same card you used to book the tickets to collect them and that if you don't have the card you have to contact them.

From experience, it seems if you collect from a machine on a different network you don't need the same card. The machines I use are all on the former North London Line, now Overground or TFL Rail, formerly Abellio GA.

p00hsticks

peachyprice wrote: »

From experience, it seems if you collect from a machine on a different network you don't need the same card. The machines I use are all on the former North London Line, now Overground or TFL Rail, formerly Abellio GA.

I regularly book tickets for business travel via our company's online travel resource, rather than booking myself and having to claim back on expenses. They don't have my card details. When collecting my tickets from the machine at my local station (run by virgin trains) I have to enter any credit/debit card first for id and can then collect the tickets (which don't have my name on) by entering the reference...

yorkie2

I recently collected a load of tickets in the new style ticket format, and they did not have a name printed on them.

p00hsticks wrote: »

I regularly book tickets for business travel via our company's online travel resource, rather than booking myself and having to claim back on expenses. They don't have my card details. When collecting my tickets from the machine at my local station (run by virgin trains) I have to enter any credit/debit card first for id and can then collect the tickets (which don't have my name on) by entering the reference...

Yes. Business accounts are set to 'any card collection'.

Pound

If I'm allowed to buy a ticket for someone else am I allowed to buy a ticket for myself and then later decide to give the ticket to a different person?

Quentin

Of course. If it's a railcard discounted ticket then the other person will need to have the corresponding railcard too

Pound

Virgin Trains' website has in their terms and conditions:-

"We, the train operating company and the ticket inspector reserve the right to refuse to accept your ticket to the extent that [...] we or they have reason to suspect [...] transfer to a different person" - https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/terms-conditions#term9

Seems like Virgin and other operators have contradictory information about transferring a ticket.

dzug1

Pound wrote: »

If I'm allowed to buy a ticket for someone else am I allowed to buy a ticket for myself and then later decide to give the ticket to a different person?

Yes - but it has to be the complete unused ticket. You can't use one direction and the other person the other.

dzug1

Pound wrote: »

Virgin Trains' website has in their terms and conditions:-

"We, the train operating company and the ticket inspector reserve the right to refuse to accept your ticket to the extent that [...] we or they have reason to suspect [...] transfer to a different person" - https://www.virgintrains.co.uk/terms-conditions#term9

Seems like Virgin and other operators have contradictory information about transferring a ticket.

Virgin are referring to fraudulent transfer there


Mind you proving (or disproving) fraud isn't straightforward