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    Changing to tfl at East Croydon

    Yes, I know that, but at least one person (OP!) thinks of it as 'the tfl fare'. I'd wager there are plenty of other people who think the same way.
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    Changing to tfl at East Croydon

    You can understand pax' confusion about terminology when it's extremely common to take an entirely NR journey (within London area) and see a charge from tfl.gov.uk on their bank statement...
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    Salisbury to Wimbledon not via London help

    Who sold you this ticket, out of interest?
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    Kingston to Dartford, which route?

    If you reckon you can do it within MJT (which I reckon you probably could), you could do: Kingston westbound NR round the loop to Richmond; behind-gateline interchange to District; District line to Ealing Broadway or Paddington; behind-gateline interchange to Elizabeth line; EL eastbound...
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    Should you inform your employer of being arrested?

    Yes, but this: suggests that the OP may not have a 'run of the mill' employer... I'm guessing some kind of security cleared position?
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    TfL Fare Caledonian Road & Barnsbury to Watford Junction

    Yeah I suppose there is that for Oyster on-card. But for any journey that uses the back office (so, contactless or adult undiscounted Oyster, after reprocessing) what I said is true.
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    TfL Fare Caledonian Road & Barnsbury to Watford Junction

    If a given flow (Origin and Destination) is shown in Single Fare Finder*, then you will be charged one of the listed fares (ignoring any questions of caps etc). In this case, there's only one, so no matter what you do in between - so long as you stay within maximum journey time - then you will...
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    What does "Not valid on trains timed to depart" actually mean?

    There's a meta-question to be asked here: what does "actually mean" actually mean? Surely, if I can find an accredited ticket retailer that implements some particular interpretation of a restriction like the one being discussed, then that's what the restriction "actually means" ? Of course...
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    SWR - Advance Ticket Availability

    I'm seeing top-tier advances (the ones just a few pounds cheaper than the Anytime Single) on the routes I look at, making the SWR claim technically correct... which routes are you looking at?
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    SWR - Advance Ticket Availability

    As mentioned by Alex C, this does now appear to be policy. Here is a tweet , but I think we will soon be seeing the exact same words pasted across many replies (it's already on one more) Quoted with followup: As a commenter says:
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    SWR - Advance Ticket Availability

    Seeing the same here. By contrast the return leg seems to still have the as-before spread of cheap Advances (eg I can see 9.70 for evening peak journeys Waterloo to Fratton, later this month). I do hope this isn't some awful new DfT mandate...
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    Valid route advice: Watton-at-Stone to Burgess Hill via Stevenage

    Easier for the passenger, yes. By "they'll have fun" I meant the pricing manager will have work to do, which they might or might not find fun...
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    Valid route advice: Watton-at-Stone to Burgess Hill via Stevenage

    Yeah, when I read "I’ve shared your comments with the relevant manager, so this can be looked into further and we can ensure this doesn’t happen again" in the response and people here were saying 'good result', I personally was thinking there's more than one way of ensuring "this doesn't happen...
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    How to force Avanti to train their staff?

    When they apologise, do they concede that the staff on the ground were wrong, or do they just apologise that you were delayed and throw compensation at you?
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    LNER to pilot removal of Off-Peak tickets

    (my emphasis) What disingenuous nonsense. A London-Haymarket ticket is a ticket for the journey London-Edinburgh! Otherwise you wouldn't be able to use it for that journey! This whole document has a really nasty tone - I'd be embarrassed to have written it. Yeah, and £3.59 and a "kindly...

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