Hello.
Today I had to undertake a journey from St Margarets (Hertfordshire) (SMT) to London Liverpool Street (LST). I have a Priv card.
As St Margarets ticket office isn't open at that time on a Sunday morning, there was no opportunity for me to purchase a priv-discounted ticket immediately prior to boarding the train. Fortunately I'd thought this might be the case and had been able to buy my ticket the day before.
However, there is a TVM there, which will sell the normal range of adult, child and railcard fares. My question therefore is: Had I not been able to purchase my ticket prior to that point, would I have been allowed to get on the train at SMT with no ticket whatsoever (as the ticket I required wasn't available from the machine), and purchase one prior to passing through the barrier at LST from a member of staff there?
As there was no Permit-to-travel machine the only other options I could think of were a) Purchase a full adult fare covering SMT to LST from the TVM or b) Find an adult fare in the machine to an equivalent value and buy that, to show intent to pay the 'correct' fare (though technically not by buying the correct ticket!)
Also, with whatever the answer to the above is, does this vary by TOC or is it universal?
Apologies if the answer to this is really obvious!
Today I had to undertake a journey from St Margarets (Hertfordshire) (SMT) to London Liverpool Street (LST). I have a Priv card.
As St Margarets ticket office isn't open at that time on a Sunday morning, there was no opportunity for me to purchase a priv-discounted ticket immediately prior to boarding the train. Fortunately I'd thought this might be the case and had been able to buy my ticket the day before.
However, there is a TVM there, which will sell the normal range of adult, child and railcard fares. My question therefore is: Had I not been able to purchase my ticket prior to that point, would I have been allowed to get on the train at SMT with no ticket whatsoever (as the ticket I required wasn't available from the machine), and purchase one prior to passing through the barrier at LST from a member of staff there?
As there was no Permit-to-travel machine the only other options I could think of were a) Purchase a full adult fare covering SMT to LST from the TVM or b) Find an adult fare in the machine to an equivalent value and buy that, to show intent to pay the 'correct' fare (though technically not by buying the correct ticket!)
Also, with whatever the answer to the above is, does this vary by TOC or is it universal?
Apologies if the answer to this is really obvious!