#7

How was the trip?

(You reply “tramendous!”)

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#9

That sounds so ridiculously dated now. Amazing how the pace of technology has changed everything. Amazing.

#10

Did you have a City Card for all the museums?

#11

Back when I used to commute from Reading to London everyday I used to get the Waterloo train cos it was cheaper and I could walk to work once I got there. However this meant that my ticket wasn’t valid on peak time trains returning from Paddington, but yep, I used it several times anyway and remember hiding in the loos when the ticket inspector came around.

#12

It was my stag do pal, we rolled in and out of Way out West and maybe saw the Poseidon statue.

#14
It was

tramendous!

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#16

I nearly got busted doing something similar when I was a teenager. The inspector banged on the toilet doors and I shouted “I’M HAVING A POO” and he went away. Don’t know what he thought was gonna happen really.

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#17

Woah, they should market it as a time travelling experience!

#19

Made it!

Now to work out what I’m gonna do with all this extra money!!!

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#20

sometimes hop the train home to my parents if I cant be arsed with paying 35 quid. no barriers either end, so pretty easy. just got to keep an eye out for the guards.

:sunglasses::v:

#21

This is a long story but definitely worth it:

I have a London Terminals Tickets as it is cheaper and if you know your way around London easily workable. Due to on going engineering work you can use these tickets on certain tube journeys. However if I need to travel on the tube several stops further than the covered route I am not going to tap my contact-less and pay for the whole journey as the majority of it is covered, also buying a ticket for the part of the journey not covered is not always possible due to zone restrictions.
So I just use my London terminal ticket and show it to them at the gate most times they let me through without me having to explain.

#22

eh?

#23

On the tube I believe you can only extend your ticket by zones or buy tickets for zones rather than stops

#24

Correct. That doesn’t mean you’re being overcharged.

If you have a ticket from A to B and you want to go from A to C via B then the fare you owe is the fare from B to C, not the difference between the first two. Anything else is just fare evasion.

#25

But they don’t do a ticket from just B to C so if I bought a ticket for the zone that covered that area I would also effectively double paying for part of the journey. Your not a deep undercover mole for one of train companies are you ?

#26

Your London Terminals ticket (I’ve got one too) allows you roughly speaking to travel to any of the mainline London stations on your side of London. I once took the piss using mine to go from South London to St Pancras and had my ticket scribbled on by an officious gate guard. So you can hop on a tube from London Bridge to Waterloo on that ticket fair enough.

You can’t get a point to point ticket between London Underground stations, but if you’re at a zone 1 NR station and you want to go to another zone 1 station then the fare you owe is the zone 1 single fare; it’s as simple as that. That’s the reason why your point to point ticket is cheaper than a Travelcard: it’s because it isn’t a Travelcard.

#27

Most buses most nights

#28

Got a Gatwick Express train home yesterday on a super off-peak ticket. Take that The Man.

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#29

I do understand that but as I have annual ticket so I think they take pity on me and see some logic to it on the occasions I have explained the situation. Also refer to the thread title

#30

Yeah. Fucked if I know why I’m getting such a pissy-arse about it. Probably residual seething resentment at my ticket scribbler.

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