Afternoon. 
The straight forward bit: I'm wanting to head from London, up north to Bolton this weekend. Leaving anytime Saturday 20th (though ideally arriving around 15.00hrs) and coming south again on Sunday 21st around midday from Bolton.
Ideally I need to get off at Blackrod on the outward leg if possible. I assumed that to give me flexibility, the best ticket for this would be the off peak return from London Euston (or Tottenham Hale, my nearest station) to Blackrod, as I could then just get on at Bolton on Sunday.
The prices (before priv) are:
£77.50 off peak return from TOM - BLK
£74.20 off peak return from EUS - BLK
However, when I tried to buy my tickets this afternoon the ticketing system would not apply my staff priv discount to these tickets. The nice man in the ticket office tried it with starting from both Euston or Tottenham Hale but neither would let it accept the discount. He said he didn't know why it wouldn't discount the tickets and could only suggest I went to try and buy them at Euston instead (which wasn't convenient at the time).
I'm guessing there is a simple reason for this, though being new to the railway industry I don't know what it is and wondered if someone could explain if possible. The only thing I can think is that it's maybe this is because it's the off peak return not the open return? If this is the case then I could stipulate leaving at a certain time for both journeys but am guessing that it wouldn't give me discount on two singles either?
The straight forward bit: I'm wanting to head from London, up north to Bolton this weekend. Leaving anytime Saturday 20th (though ideally arriving around 15.00hrs) and coming south again on Sunday 21st around midday from Bolton.
Ideally I need to get off at Blackrod on the outward leg if possible. I assumed that to give me flexibility, the best ticket for this would be the off peak return from London Euston (or Tottenham Hale, my nearest station) to Blackrod, as I could then just get on at Bolton on Sunday.
The prices (before priv) are:
£77.50 off peak return from TOM - BLK
£74.20 off peak return from EUS - BLK
However, when I tried to buy my tickets this afternoon the ticketing system would not apply my staff priv discount to these tickets. The nice man in the ticket office tried it with starting from both Euston or Tottenham Hale but neither would let it accept the discount. He said he didn't know why it wouldn't discount the tickets and could only suggest I went to try and buy them at Euston instead (which wasn't convenient at the time).
I'm guessing there is a simple reason for this, though being new to the railway industry I don't know what it is and wondered if someone could explain if possible. The only thing I can think is that it's maybe this is because it's the off peak return not the open return? If this is the case then I could stipulate leaving at a certain time for both journeys but am guessing that it wouldn't give me discount on two singles either?
