duffield
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40 years ago I got confused as to which railway offices I was travelling to and ended up in Darlington instead of Crewe, much to the amusement of my colleagues.
There's different ticket gates for the Shinkansen and other trains. The Shinkansen is usually on the highest level. It wasn't too bad as it's only like 30 minutes or something between Shin Osaka and Kyoto on the rapid commuter train but it wasted about an hour.I've had this twice and the guard just told me to get off at the next stop and take the train back. Anything else is a real overreaction - unless the next stop is very far away and the guard missed his breakfast that morning.
Did the Shinkansen guard escort you to the gate on arrival? If you flash your rail pass at the gates there they wouldn't otherwise know if you got there on a regional or on a Shinkansen.
Not quite the same, but in 1984 when I applied for jobs after university I applied to British Rail, said I'd work just about anywhere except Nottingham, and ended up with a job interview in - Nottingham - and a subsequent job offer in - Nottingham. Oh well. They couldn't even send me a rail ticket in advance, I had to buy my own and claim it back from BR. But it helped that I had a firm job offer from IBM with a company handbook which I read on the train to Nottingham for the BR interview, and I didn't accept the job which was subsequently offered.40 years ago I got confused as to which railway offices I was travelling to and ended up in Darlington instead of Crewe, much to the amusement of my colleagues.
There's different ticket gates for the Shinkansen and other trains. The Shinkansen is usually on the highest level. It wasn't too bad as it's only like 30 minutes or something between Shin Osaka and Kyoto on the rapid commuter train but it wasted about an hour.
The Sanyo/North Kyushu pass was valid all the way from Fukuoka and Shin-Osaka on the Shinkansen, just not the last part between Shin-Osaka and Kyoto unlike the whole JR Pass which is valid on basically nearly all Shinkansens everywhere apart from the Nozomi ones. I think the lady who at Nagasaki was trying to be too clever by thinking it would just be a same platform interchange at Shin-Kobe. I've done it quite a few times between Shin-Osaka and Hiroshima and it's always fun seeing the castles at Himeji etc. The Shinkansen going just between between Shin Osaka and Kyoto is actually quite underwhelming and is only about 10 minutes slower than the commuter train.Still, you got a free Shinkansen ride!
My parents and sister lived between Osaka and Kobe (Mikage) in the 1980s, and I stayed in Osaka last June on holiday. I wouldn't think of using the Shinkansen between the two, I didn't have a JNR pass so I just paid on the day on any of the - many - rail options. I guess for someone with a JNR pass it might make sense, even though it involves going the wrong way to start with.The Sanyo/North Kyushu pass was valid all the way from Fukuoka and Shin-Osaka on the Shinkansen, just not the last part between Shin-Osaka and Kyoto unlike the whole JR Pass which is valid on basically nearly all Shinkansens everywhere apart from the Nozomi ones. I think the lady who at Nagasaki was trying to be too clever by thinking it would just be a same platform interchange at Shin-Kobe. I've done it quite a few times between Shin-Osaka and Hiroshima and it's always fun seeing the castles at Himeji etc. The Shinkansen going just between between Shin Osaka and Kyoto is actually quite underwhelming and is only about 10 minutes slower than the commuter train.
That's not the same class 50 hating person who ended up on Luxulyan bank behind a class 50 while going from Paddington to Reading..........?A former colleague of mine had an unfortunate tendency to fall asleep (admittedly I think a beer or two probably played a part) when on his train home (Reading) in the days when he worked in London. He woke up in Cardiff on several occasions.
A related situation is when you go past your ticketed station.In theory it should be a new ticket, but in reality its down to the guard’s discretion how they deal with the situation
That's my experience too, common sense. They know when someone is trying it on.On both occasions the inspectors accepted my explanation with a laugh and let me on the return train
Or Horsforth, Shipley or Huddersfield, assuming you're awake. Stations like Durham would be even better as at least there's no risk of ignoring or confusing platform letters.Leeds is perhaps unique in I believe the most damage you can do on a long distance train is a trip to Wakefield or York
A couple of instances of the above:And last week I got off the Manchester train at Levenshulme, realised that I had left my bag on the train, jumped back onboard as the door were closing and ended up at Piccadilly
Years ago at Bristol Temple Meads the last screen you saw before going downstairs to the subway was an "ARRIVALS" one..... Took lots of arguments, mostly with staff (!!!) to get it changed. Actually every arrivals screen inside the gateline got changed, what passenger was ever really going to need it.....On several occasions I have witnessed people board trains using the platform indicator information which was wrong and then be stuck on a departing train they didn't want.
It's generally pretty obvious. You can often tell who's going to try it on before they even get to that stage - the young couple who had tickets from a barriered station to the next stop (five minutes away) who were carrying suitcases. Helpful person that I am, I made a special effort to remind them that we'd arrived at their supposed destination before dispatching. They got off.That's my experience too, common sense. They know when someone is trying it on.
Similar story:It's generally pretty obvious. You can often tell who's going to try it on before they even get to that stage - the young couple who had tickets from a barriered station to the next stop (five minutes away) who were carrying suitcases. Helpful person that I am, I made a special effort to remind them that we'd arrived at their supposed destination before dispatching. They got off.
(going through an old thread. Sorry if it's moved on from this point)Meanwhile, I was quite happy with moving to Nottingham (from Reading) and accepted a British Rail job there in 1985. I'm pretty sure they *did* send me a ticket in advance though!