nicolaboo
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A week ago on Sunday, me and the grandson were out and about on various trains within the ranger's boundary.
After arriving at Huddersfield, a 185 that the lad needs for haulage pulls in on a Manchester-Sheffield diversionary.
We got on expecting no trouble, but sometime later the guard does his ticket check and informs me my ranger isn't valid.
He'd said something about the route (I presumed he meant the diversionary route via Hudd and Wakefield Kirkgate), and I replied that it was a Manchester to Sheffield service and is valid on TPE, getting the 'rangers and rovers website' to show him on my phone.
He wasn't trying to charge me for a new ticket, but then insisted that the ranger isn't valid on the Hope valley as 'it doesn't stop at all those stations' - refering to the map.
I said the start and end stations are within the map and also the route taken (via Stockport normally) is wholly marked on the map.
He wasn't having any of it.
I'm sure he'd realised part way through that he was wrong, but wasn't willing to back track in front of half a dozen people.
I later contacted the TPEassist on twitter and despite showing my ticket to them, they couldn't offer an answer, refering me to an email address that 'should' get back to me within 20 days.
Does anyone else have a similar experience, or knowledge one way or another (while I await for the TPE bods to get back to me)?
After arriving at Huddersfield, a 185 that the lad needs for haulage pulls in on a Manchester-Sheffield diversionary.
We got on expecting no trouble, but sometime later the guard does his ticket check and informs me my ranger isn't valid.
He'd said something about the route (I presumed he meant the diversionary route via Hudd and Wakefield Kirkgate), and I replied that it was a Manchester to Sheffield service and is valid on TPE, getting the 'rangers and rovers website' to show him on my phone.
He wasn't trying to charge me for a new ticket, but then insisted that the ranger isn't valid on the Hope valley as 'it doesn't stop at all those stations' - refering to the map.
I said the start and end stations are within the map and also the route taken (via Stockport normally) is wholly marked on the map.
He wasn't having any of it.
I'm sure he'd realised part way through that he was wrong, but wasn't willing to back track in front of half a dozen people.
I later contacted the TPEassist on twitter and despite showing my ticket to them, they couldn't offer an answer, refering me to an email address that 'should' get back to me within 20 days.
Does anyone else have a similar experience, or knowledge one way or another (while I await for the TPE bods to get back to me)?