I’ve seen on Twitter they are trialling the barcode readers at gates, and should have e-tickets by the end of the year (from the Southeastern Twitter team).
I'm pretty shocked at SE potentially accommodating this given their ultra right hard-line stance against them, though I suspect they may have had a gun held to their heads when if/when they agreed to it.
How about St Pancras - Dover Priory? I'm forced to use a paper ticket for this also.
There are a few well known exceptions where E/M-tickets can be legitimatly tested onboard SE services and from experience most of their conductors couldn't give a monkeys fart about them and just say "yep, thanks" and carry on. There's a few examples obviously on services between Ashford and Tonbridge where you might legitimatly use an E-ticket in these circumstances like Marshlink from stations to Gatwick or similar where the route Edenbridge/Polegate is permitted and generally this is rarely a problem or any trouble for the passenger. Obviously during disruption on Southern when ticket acceptance is in place with SE then obviously again there's no issue.
The big problem I've experienced and others on here too have in past is when you start/end your journey short at either Hastings or Ashford and revenue staff on the gatelines are less than hospitiable to them. I got refused entry to Ashford with a return portion Rye to Durrington on Sea issued on GWRs app. I normally print my tickets out too but didn't on this occasion. They even tried citing the incorrect quote on the GWR app that states "break of journey not permitted"
In the end to save missing my train, which was hourly I just bought a super off peak single from Ashford to Durrington and immediately logged it as mis-selling on Barclaycard app and the transaction got blocked.
I read a similar instance on here where somebody at Hastings was refused exit from station to break journey.
You won't find e or m for journeys involving Mersyrail
Would an Anytime single/return any permitted route that's available as an E-ticket not be accepted by Merseyrail then?
Not got any desire to test this out but the walk up fare seems the same between Liverpool SP and Liverpool LS regardless of operator.
