Return ticket had OUT when it should have been RTN

[bb21]

Good on aunty Mabel.
If she wants to make the most of the system offered by the absurd fare system then go for it girl!
It's the rail companies' fault for making life difficult.

You are a charmer, aren't you? :roll:

It's the bloody railway companies' fault so sod the other customers.

 

[Merseysider]

Good on aunty Mabel.
If she wants to make the most of the system offered by the absurd fare system then go for it girl!
It's the rail companies' fault for making life difficult.
Unable to purchase ticket from my local unstaffed station with no machine and only Sheffield ticket office available en route - go by car
Break of journey overnight with threat of invalid tickets - my self preservation is worth more
Me, I've given up the will to live such an exciting life and go by car unless it's simply A to B with a ticket I've double checked is valid before I leave home.

An absurd fare system that 99% of passengers manage to get by just fine on.

My local station, Belle Vue, is unstaffed but I get hold of my Advance tickets by paying a quid or two to get into Manchester rather than throwing a tantrum. Funny that.

Sometimes it's the passengers choosing to make life difficult for themselves.

 

[gray1404]

An absurd fare system that 99% of passengers manage to get by just fine on.

My local station, Belle Vue, is unstaffed but I get hold of my Advance tickets by paying a quid or two to get into Manchester rather than throwing a tantrum. Funny that.

Sometimes it's the passengers choosing to make life difficult for themselves.

And you always have the option of getting the posted to you (free of charge from the right website) if you ever didn't want to have to make the trip into Manchester. I am in a similar situation in that I have to either get them posted (if there is enough time) or make a special trip into Liverpool to collect ticket. This is because sadly that booking office at my local station is not very good at issuing anything they consider complicated. It is frustrating that the TVM at my local station of Formby is not set up for TOD and they have no intention whatsoever of changing that. It is really frustrating.

 

[hairyhandedfool]

Got it. So it is very limited indeed really. Interesting that some booking offices refuse to sell Advances or Railcards at certain times. Personally, I would prefer that wasn't the case but still.

Thanks Jake!

Different people have different views on what should or should not be allowed, and at what time.

I had a complaint, the other week, from someone who was insistent that I should have told another passenger to stand aside so that I could serve passengers who had to travel on a service that was shortly to depart. The complaining person missed their train, partly due to the slight wait and partly because he seemingly considered one minute to be enough to buy a ticket, make their way to the platform (across a bridge and down three dozen stairs) and get on their train before the train departed (and that's without considering the dispatch process). The ticket that I should have waited to sell?..... A weekly season and photo ID card for immediate use.

I nearly missed a train a few months back because I required a priv single fare in a Penalty Fares area and the two clerks on duty were dealing with a new monthly season ticket (advice required on what season to get and a photocard required) and an Advance fare with few details to go on. I did catch my train, but only just.... and no, I didn't complain.