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I travelled on the return portion of a Esher to Rye ticket this morning. I got checked on the Clapham Junction to Hastings leg - on the second check the guard took my ticket and punched it with a train-shaped hole, additionally crossed out the return date expiry of August 16th and then filled...

What is the official line on travelling on a different train than booked with Southern? I have a ticket today to travel from Victoria down to Hastings and may arrive much earlier than booked. Inevitably an advance is rejected by the barrier, if you show the ticket and say you want to go...

Good afternoon, I am flying back to Stansted this evening and I have an Open Return ticket booked to Rye Sussex. Due to a delay it is unlikely I will get the final train from Ashford International. What are the current rules relating to completing my journey the following day? I intend to stop...

Moderator note: Split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/incorrect-fare-what-charge-am-i-facing-here-and-should-i-pay-for-a-solicitor.254834 Do you think? Why not then, for example, check tickets on a train?

For the first time I am trying to use the online form for refunding my paper ticket as no trains are going to my intended station today. I've filled it in, taken the pictures, filled in all the numbers and details that for some inexplicable reason it cannot get from my Southern account anyway...

I'm sure I don't need to say that this refers to the use of an Off Peak Open Return. I went on a little UK tour over the last few weeks - I started by visiting my sister in Banbury - buying an aforementioned Rye to Banbury open return for the month and, from then on, buying split Advance...

Good morning, I've just been refused twice a refund on an advance ticket for travel last Saturday (30th July). I requested the refund using the online booking form the day before, I had not printed out the tickets in advance so could not cut them up and photograph them. My reason for not...

I have a couple of Advance tickets between London and Rye and hold little hope of successfully completing the journey next week. According to the Southern website : " If you have opted to collect an Advance purchase ticket via TOD, but have not yet collected it, you may change it to a...

I was caught up in the exciting new timetable roll out at Twyford yesterday and ended up being 40 minutes late into Paddington. I aimed to catch a Tfl service that was cancelled along with the next 2 or 3. After considerable effort I found the delay compensation option on Tfl website but no...

Yesterday I wanted to purchase a Day Return from Maidenhead to Ealing Broadway at Taplow, starting short and returning back to Maidenhead. The ticket office was closed and the machine did not offer an option to purchase tickets from another station. At Ealing Broadway I was told I should have...

I travelled on the heavily delayed VTEC 1600 Kings Cross to Aberdeen on Wednesday - arriving roughly three hours late into Aberdeen, due to signal failure outside York, fatality around Darlington and then issues with scheduling and staffing all the way up to Aberdeen. The relentless on-board...

I recently purchased this day return but then realised that the last train from Victoria was subject to a bus replacement from Lewes. Deciding to travel back from Charing Cross I was told I had to purchase an Off Peak single by CHX ticket office. Can anyone confirm this? Additionally, there...

Good morning, My partner who is the DRC holder is in Worcester at present with the parents and I am working in London. I have purchased some advance tickets for a trip to Liverpool next week and they were booked so we were on the same train between Birmingham and Liverpool. My partner having...

Hello, Yesterday I purchased a super-off peak ticket from Rye to London Terminals with the HS1 restriction (I travelled via Ashford Intl to London Charing Cross). On my return journey I was meeting someone at Gatwick Airport so I left from London Victoria and attempted to board the...