Bought a day retutn ticket from Brighton to London with zones 1-6 with NSE card and it was £12. Lost ticket and had to pay £16 for a straight London to Brighton ticket to get back. Why is it 33% more expensive to go just one way?
The first ticket you bought seems to be the Super Off-Peak Travelcard, which is a Brighton - London deal. The second ticket was the standard Off-Peak Day Single.
Could I have got a cheaper super off-peak single then?
Could I have got a cheaper super off-peak single then?
Depends, probably if you had bought it before you travelled so were you on the train when you had no ticket ?
Nope. Realised I lost ticket before boarding the train so used one of the clumsy Southern machines to get another ticket.
Don't think so,
Could've gone on line via a smart phone and probably got a better deal than going to the ticket office at Victoria.
Why would I need to go online if I am at the station?
Because sometimes the rail company's do better deals online.
So if I went to the ticket office are you saying that they might not sell me the same range of tickets which are for sale on-line?
So if I went to the ticket office are you saying that they might not sell me the same range of tickets which are for sale on-line?
They can't as on-line offers deals purchasing in advance whereas normally if you pitch up at the ticket office you are paying to travel immediately
How long before travel is "in advance"? Technically, everyone buys their ticket "in advance". That's how time works.
They can't as on-line offers deals purchasing in advance whereas normally if you pitch up at the ticket office you are paying to travel immediately
How long before travel is "in advance"? Technically, everyone buys their ticket "in advance". That's how time works.
But surely if I bowl up in advance I can purchase the same ticket as I would online? I can understand getting a discount for an online purchase but I cannot make sense of why there would be an extra bunch of different ticket types online which are not available elsewhere. What is the point in this?