jacksonbang
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I'm sure I don't need to say that this refers to the use of an Off Peak Open Return.
I went on a little UK tour over the last few weeks - I started by visiting my sister in Banbury - buying an aforementioned Rye to Banbury open return for the month and, from then on, buying split Advance tickets to Liverpool, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Wolverhampton before returning down via Reading to use the return portion of my ticket home.
My intention was to go from London Victoria to Hastings to Rye. No problem - about half way through the journey around Lewes there was a ticket check - my paper ticket was casually glanced at, the supervisor moved on momentarily until they came back looked again and said those magic words in the header. In a bit of a shock, I looked at my ticket and then said "Is there something wrong with it?" - they said "No - it's just really old" (three weeks), "It's still valid, right?" "Yes, but normally the returns are used sooner" - ticket was then taken from me - huge biro line drawn through with the date.
Two questions -
I'm basically being asked if I am committing fraud, right?
What if I wanted to break my journey at Eastbourne or/and Hastings?
I guess I wouldn't care so much if I got off at Hastings and their wasn't an actual trio of security guards dealing with a multitude of ticketless travel with a shrug of the shoulders.
I went on a little UK tour over the last few weeks - I started by visiting my sister in Banbury - buying an aforementioned Rye to Banbury open return for the month and, from then on, buying split Advance tickets to Liverpool, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Wolverhampton before returning down via Reading to use the return portion of my ticket home.
My intention was to go from London Victoria to Hastings to Rye. No problem - about half way through the journey around Lewes there was a ticket check - my paper ticket was casually glanced at, the supervisor moved on momentarily until they came back looked again and said those magic words in the header. In a bit of a shock, I looked at my ticket and then said "Is there something wrong with it?" - they said "No - it's just really old" (three weeks), "It's still valid, right?" "Yes, but normally the returns are used sooner" - ticket was then taken from me - huge biro line drawn through with the date.
Two questions -
I'm basically being asked if I am committing fraud, right?
What if I wanted to break my journey at Eastbourne or/and Hastings?
I guess I wouldn't care so much if I got off at Hastings and their wasn't an actual trio of security guards dealing with a multitude of ticketless travel with a shrug of the shoulders.