tinycowboy
Well-known member
Don't think the Rye route would help - too hard to get from Ashford to Medway towns. Shame that the high speed bit wasn't extended to the Medway Towns or Canterbury loops - too many issues I suppose.
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Southern season ticket to "London Terminals"
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Don't think the Rye route would help - too hard to get from Ashford to Medway towns. Shame that the high speed bit wasn't extended to the Medway Towns or Canterbury loops - too many issues I suppose.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
When God created the railways, He decreed that there were NO services that crossed London. The Thameslink concept is the work of Satan and, therefore, the ticketing system will treat users as sinners who will be condemned to eternal punishment. If you MUST insist on travelling from Sussex to St Pancras, I can only recommend PRAYER as your path to eventual salvation. A sincere prayer may result in you finding an angel on duty at the ticket barrier and you will be rewarded.
"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked". Judges 5:6
"In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked". Judges 5:6
lost in london
Well-known member
Weird then how for the last three years or so with a 'London Terminals' ticket (coming from the South) I've been able to get off at City Thameslink.
If Thameslink is the work of Satan then Crossrail must be Satan's brother, being slowly born.
Pinkie Brown
I'll look after the skirt
Same here. Everytime I've used the HS service from Ashford with a journey originating from Bexhill, the barrier has never opened. The gate staff just open the gate manually with barely a glance. I could have shown a ticket for the Bluebell Railway and they would probably have waved me through.
I'm fairly sure that it won't, officially. I used my pass at St Pancras and got told off. They scribbled something on my season ticket to say if I did it again I'd be FINED.
But that wasn't 8am on a Saturday, and I wasn't actually fined anyway.
Mungo_Jerry
New member
- Sep 27, 2011
- 184
I normally go Hassocks to London Bridge with a London Terminals ticket but last Monday had to go St Pancras and wondered the same thing - and it worked fine going through both ways.
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
The whole system is a shambles, designed to confuse and profit. I'd be ashamed to work for anything to do with railways.
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
This thread is amazing , I honestly thought the Nigels would have been all over it. #trainspotters
Hatterlovesbrighton
something clever
Interestingly, season tickets marked to Victoria only also work in London termini machines
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This morning the prices were:
Weekly season ticket to London St Pancras - £110.20
Weekly season ticket to London Terminals - £110.20
Weekly season ticket to London St Pancras - £110.20
Weekly season ticket to London Terminals - £110.20
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
See you in Parky land.........
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Thank you Bob Geldof, I am sure the railways will be a worse place for this.
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- #57
No, no you won't.
tinycowboy
Well-known member
It's nonsensical therefore to not allow a London Terminals ticket through. Anyway, we're on tenterhooks here Bozza: WHAT HAPPENED??
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- #59
Both mine, and other, London Terminal season tickets worked without issue in the St Pancras automatic ticket barriers.
RESULT.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,312
it seems to me that the barriers are set to read a setting "London terminals" and arent sophisticated enough to determine where you came from. so ticket will let you through at St Panc but you're not supposed to. one offs you'll get away with it, probably not a good idea for commuting daily.