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An interesting observation was made whilst purchasing a Southeastern Weekender promotional fare for a relative to travel this past weekend
have a look at the attached image!
You will observe that the start date on the Return coupon is destinctly after the valid until date, the intention with this ticket, being a promotional fare, is that you travel out on the Friday or Saturday and travel back on the Saturday or Sunday of the same weekend. This is an error in the set up of the ticket in the TIS, also applied to the WK3 fare, and most confused station staff when issuing the ticket. On this occasion they stamped the rear of the ticket and requested that the ticket be passed as intended on Sunday 17th.
It is also of note that, as demonstrated here the validity field is used rather well to indicate the days that travel is valid, however a TIS (at least Fujitsu Star as used by Abellio Greater Anglia at Norwich), will allow a WK3 product to be issued for outward travel on a Saturday despite printing Validity Friday Only.
I'm assuming that Southeastern will be aware of this by now as it, I expect, is affecting a vast swab of their weekend promotional fares. I thought it may be of interest to some forum members, another quirk in the system.
TP
You will observe that the start date on the Return coupon is destinctly after the valid until date, the intention with this ticket, being a promotional fare, is that you travel out on the Friday or Saturday and travel back on the Saturday or Sunday of the same weekend. This is an error in the set up of the ticket in the TIS, also applied to the WK3 fare, and most confused station staff when issuing the ticket. On this occasion they stamped the rear of the ticket and requested that the ticket be passed as intended on Sunday 17th.
It is also of note that, as demonstrated here the validity field is used rather well to indicate the days that travel is valid, however a TIS (at least Fujitsu Star as used by Abellio Greater Anglia at Norwich), will allow a WK3 product to be issued for outward travel on a Saturday despite printing Validity Friday Only.
I'm assuming that Southeastern will be aware of this by now as it, I expect, is affecting a vast swab of their weekend promotional fares. I thought it may be of interest to some forum members, another quirk in the system.
TP