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I have just been to a FGW station to book my 7 day All Line Rover. The ticket office person looked it up on his system and then told me there wasn't one. Only a 14 day one appeared on his menu. I insisted that there was one so he made a phone call and eventually found it. I think it might be an option under 14 day to change it to 7 day. The main funny is that it was issued as 2 coupons the main ticket with start date and end dates a week apart (as you would expect) but the second part is a flexi rover dates box ticket. Do I really have to fill in each day as I use it?
 
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Seems to be a fault with FGWs ticketing system, even day rangers are being issued with date boxes for one day... Happened to me the last two times I have purchased a Devon day ranger.
 

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Seems to be a fault with FGWs ticketing system, even day rangers are being issued with date boxes for one day... Happened to me the last two times I have purchased a Devon day ranger.

Same here, ever since about May I've noticed that. Even the guard remarked what the second bit of the ticket (the date box one) was all about!
 

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Yonks ago I had a 14 day all line rover (purple stock) and there were 10 boxes on the back. The guard / Inspector insisted I showed him the back of the ticket and further insisted I wrote the day and date in one of the boxes. I did of course but when I then remarked that it was 14 day rover so what about the other 4 days he said he was going to check. That was about 20-odd years ago so wonder if he has found the answer? :D

I presumed the 10 boxes were for a 10 from something ticket but kept him happy anyway. There can't be any reason for filling all the date boxes on a 14-day rover can there?
 

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It it just me thinking that you may want to avoid any FCC RPI's as you may end up with a "fine" for either of:
  • correctly not filling in the date box
  • fillling in the date box incorrectly

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Same here, ever since about May I've noticed that. Even the guard remarked what the second bit of the ticket (the date box one) was all about!

I noticed the same issue last week. My "Ride Cornwall" ticket issued at Truro booking office is annotated "Issued as 2 coupons", but the clerk never handed me the second coupon (presumably one with one date box on it).
 

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I noticed the same issue last week. My "Ride Cornwall" ticket issued at Truro booking office is annotated "Issued as 2 coupons", but the clerk never handed me the second coupon (presumably one with one date box on it).
On some systems, the receipt counts as a Coupon, so one ticket alone would say issued as 2 coupons. I think Northern's TVMs do this.
 

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On some systems, the receipt counts as a Coupon, so one ticket alone would say issued as 2 coupons. I think Northern's TVMs do this.

Virgin's TVMs at Euston will, if buying a return and selecting "add receipt" will issue four coupons, the fourth coupon saying "four coupons": the OUT, RTN, collection receipt and card receipt.

TVMs at certain other stations will have the fourth coupon saying "three coupons".

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