trainophile
Established Member
I had a ticket to travel from Liverpool Lime Street to Manchester Picc today, and another ticket from there to Hereford. Both are Advances.
En route to Liverpool I checked online and found the 13:16 Northern was cancelled. I quickly established that I could just make the 12:51 EMT train so I hastily bought a ticket for that one and just managed to get on it via the ticket collecting machines. Lucky I did as I wouldn’t have had enough time to get one from the ticket office.
Did I have to do this, or would they have accepted my Northern ticket in the circumstances? The next Northern train would have made me miss my onward connection and it’s an hour until the next one.
As it happens there was no ticket check anyway but as a matter of principle I felt better for having one, but if it happens again should I just board the EMT without buying a new ticket?
En route to Liverpool I checked online and found the 13:16 Northern was cancelled. I quickly established that I could just make the 12:51 EMT train so I hastily bought a ticket for that one and just managed to get on it via the ticket collecting machines. Lucky I did as I wouldn’t have had enough time to get one from the ticket office.
Did I have to do this, or would they have accepted my Northern ticket in the circumstances? The next Northern train would have made me miss my onward connection and it’s an hour until the next one.
As it happens there was no ticket check anyway but as a matter of principle I felt better for having one, but if it happens again should I just board the EMT without buying a new ticket?