Boring and daft commuter train ticket question

[See-Goals]

I work in Croydon (lucky me) and have an annual ticket from Brighton to east croydon. tonight I need to get off in Hove, will my ticket go through the barriers at Hove or do I have to be milked for more cash and buy a single from Brighton - Hove for example?

Thank you and apologies if this is the poorest commuter question ever posed!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

It won't work on the barriers, but if you show it to the guard on the gates then they'll let you through as Hove is a valid way of getting from Croydon to Brighton.

 

[tedebear]

Yes you have to buy a onward ticket from B to H, from your friendly conductor on board!

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

I do remember a discussion about this very subject before.

- some Brighton tickets work in the barriers at Hove, some don't - don't ask me why;
- the barrier at Hove is often open anyway in the evening;
- if all this fails the nice barrier person will let you through because the fare to Croydon / London etc is the same from Brighton / Hove and Preston Park.

 

[readingstockport]

Jump the barrier, shout "you'll never take me alive copper" and do a runner.

Always works for me.

 

[Dave the OAP]

the barriers are very often open at Hove and tickets rarely checked.

 

[Easy 10]

Didnt work out so well for Jean Charles de Menezes though.

 

[Bigtomfu]

Didnt work out so well for Jean Charles de Menezes though.

Clearly he hesitated...

 

[severnside gull]

How I love it when a thread takes an abstract or bizarre twist. Delighted to say the quality of the humour on here is well up to standard lately

 

[Lush]

Jump the barrier, shout "you'll never take me alive copper" and do a runner.

Always works for me.

Alive copper?Is that a tribute act?

 

[Ernest]

Yes you have to buy a onward ticket from B to H, from your friendly conductor on board!

Wrong on both counts, your ticket is valid at Hove and Conductors are not FRIENDLY

 

[Barnet Seagull]

Alive copper?Is that a tribute act?

Yeah like Motley Jew.

 

[WATFORD zero]

You'll have to ask HB&B, he's the only boring and daft commuter i know

 

[British Bulldog]

Wrong on both counts, your ticket is valid at Hove and Conductors are not FRIENDLY

I'm sure even you raise a smile from time to time Ernest?

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

You'll have to ask HB&B, he's the only boring and daft commuter i know

He isn't rich enough to use Hove station though.

 

[severnside gull]

I'm sure even you raise a smile from time to time Ernest?

surely not ?

 

[Deleted User X18H]

You'll have to ask HB&B, he's the only boring and daft commuter i know

I certainly am and I used my Brighton to London Terminals ticket to go through the barriers at Hove only the other day no problem.

 

[Ernest]

I'm sure even you raise a smile from time to time Ernest?

NEVER

 

[British Bulldog]

NEVER

Try it sometime Ernest, The worst that can happen is you pull a few facial muscles or frighten a few passengers.

 

[Ernest]

Try it sometime Ernest, The worst that can happen is you pull a few facial muscles or frighten a few passengers.

I have NEVER courted POPULARITY