Season ticket for Basingstoke to Queenstown Road (Battersea) - extra validity?

[rwuk]

I have a season ticket for Basingstoke to Queenstown Road (Battersea), of the "via London" flavour that allows me to go via London Waterloo - essential given the paucity of peak services that stop at Clapham Junction.

During the recent-ish disruption caused by a line-side fire, I used Battersea Park to get to Clapham Junction. I was expecting to have to ask staff at the barriers to let me through, but my ticket opened the barrier. Is this (being able to go Battersea Park -> Clapham Junction) something my ticket entitles me to, or was this something that was "relaxed" on the day?

 

[fairysdad]

Ignore... misread.

 

[kieron]

It may not be particularly obvious that Queenstown Road is on the way between Basingstoke and Battersea Park with a "London not Underground" ticket, but it is.

The ticket is valid via Woking, Wimbledon, Clapham Junction and London. More specifically, it includes Basingstoke-Calpham Junction-Queenstown Road-London Waterloo-London Victoria-Battersea Park. The journey between Waterloo and Victoria is a transfer (i.e., make your own arrangements, and only allowed here when this leg takes place in the early morning), and everything else is on a train.

As fairysdad says, having a season ticket (or any other ticket on which you are allowed to break your journey) means that you are allowed to finish your journey early at somewhere like Queenstown Road.

 

[bb21]

Do you mean "...-Clapham Junction-Battersea Park-Victoria-Waterloo-Queenstown Road" rather than the other way round?

 

[kieron]

Yes, sorry. The reasoning is the same for tickets to Battersea Park or to Queenstown Road, and I put the wrong one there by mistake.