Can I buy my ticket on the train?

ginvzt

I need to travel on Friday on a train from a vilalge where there is no train station. It is too close to buy my tickets online and have them posted to me.

Can I still buy my train ticket on the train or do I need to find another train station and buy my ticket from there before traveling?

Is there a surcharge for buying the ticket on the train?

Skint_Catt

I know that round here people get named and shamed (in the paper and on station posters) when they are fined for boarding a ticket without a train, but my local station doesn't have an office either, so I'm not sure it applies. I guess the guards would be aware of where you got on. I know a few years back when I used to get the train back from school sometimes the tickets were the same price as from the office but this could have changed. If no-one on here knows it might warrant a call to National Rail Enquiries just to make sure!

Catt xx

Inactive

Skint_Catt wrote: »

when they are fined for boarding a ticket without a train,

Catt xx

Novel concept..

dzug

ginvzt wrote: »

I need to travel on Friday on a train from a vilalge where there is no train station. It is too close to buy my tickets online and have them posted to me.

Can I still buy my train ticket on the train or do I need to find another train station and buy my ticket from there before traveling?

Is there a surcharge for buying the ticket on the train?

Don't understand how you are going to travel by train from a village with no train station.....

You can always buy your ticket on the train.

In some areas there is a surcharge, or a penalty charge, or cheap tickets might not be sold, unless the station you got on at has no ticket machine or ticket office or the ticket office is closed.

If you are getting on at a station with no booking office and no ticket machine - then yes you can buy on the train without penalty.

N79

If there is no open ticket office, no working ticket machine and no permit to travel machine then you can buy your ticket on the train or at your destination station without penalty.

If your destination station does not have a open ticket office (machines are no good as they assume that you wish to travel from the station they are situated on) and if there is no guard (and you must go looking for both) then, no matter what the rules say, there really is no way for you pay!

Our village station ticket machine was stolen about 9 months ago. It took the train company 8 months to replace it. The trains very rarely have guards. If I was travelling to another deserted village station (there were a few along the line) then the journey was free and, when challanged, the train company was begrudgingly happy with this as it would cost them to much to collect my revenue efficiently!

N79

Skint_Catt

Inactive wrote: »

Novel concept..

:rotfl: you know what I mean! :rotfl:

ginvzt

Sorry - I ment there is a station, but no office or anythig - just a post at the side of the rail saying which direction train goes to. I don't think there are any machines either.

Thanks for all answers - I will just take the train on Friday and either buy ticket on board or on the other end of the journey. Nothing I can change realyl, unless I would take a bus which would take something like 2 hours with a change instead of 30min train journey directly.

TheImportanceOfBeingIdle

If there are no facilities available at the station for you to buy a ticket then you can get it on the train.

Skint_Catt

Can you buy weekly tickets on the train - say on a Monday morning? There's no office at my station either and I am starting a new job the train would be perfect for!

TheImportanceOfBeingIdle

Skint_Catt wrote: »

Can you buy weekly tickets on the train - say on a Monday morning? There's no office at my station either and I am starting a new job the train would be perfect for!

Yes you can.