On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:56:39 -0000, "Paul Scott"
wrote:


"Clive Page" wrote in message
...
Today I travelled to London on a super off-peak London One-day Travelcard
purchased from FCC at Luton Airport Parkway. I know from past experiences
that these tickets operate the gates at all TfL stations that I've used,
but consistently fail at those of South Eastern Trains (e.g. Charing Cross
and London Bridge). Today I also found both of our tickets were rejected
at London St.Pancras (upper level), which surprised me because EMT operate
direct trains to Luton Airport Parkway and ought to have their barriers
programmed correctly. I have no idea whether the fault is with FCC for
not encoding the tickets correctly (as the EMT barrier man said) or with
the other train companies failing to recognise this fairly new type of
ticket. The rejection code, I think, is 105.

I've had the occasional NR ticket [especially if printed on a portable
machine] that wouldn't work any LU or NR barrier all day, the view of most
gate staff was that it just one of those glitches that happen. I'd be
surprised if the fact it was a 'super off peak' was relevant to the problem
really, SWT have been issuing them for nearly 3 years now, and I've been
using them around London nearly as long.

A couple of weeks ago I was accidentally sold a Super Offpeak Day travelcard
dated for 8 days later. That definitely wouldn't have worked, so I had it
reissued at another ticket office while changing trains. The guy in front of
me in the original queue had been making a timetable query for the following
week, I guess the clerk had moved the date forward?

I had an "FCC Only" travelcard the other day which kept giving "Seek
Assistance" messages at gates, both on the NR gates at Victoria and on
the LU gates at Victoria and St James's Park.

Presumably this is intended to stop people with an FCC only T/C using
the Southern trains beyond East Croydon.