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Clive Page[_4_] · March 1st 11, 01:35 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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Why are you so sure the fault lies with NXEA/FCC and not SWT, who do have
Super Off-Peak tickets of their own.

Because I have had problems with these tickets with East Midlands Trains
barriers at St.Pancras (now apparently fixed), with London Overground,
with SouthEast Trains, South Central, SouthWest Trains, and with FCC's
own barriers. When I complained, they admitted there was a problem and
that they were trying to fix it by circulating details of the "new"
ticket encoding to the other companies.

It could be sloth on the part of the other companies, but it really
should be FCC (or in your case NXEA) which keeps on prodding them to get
it implemented.

My own feeling is that there was no reason whatever to change the code:
since these tickets have exactly the same geographical validity as the
non-super off-peak One Day London Travelcard (what a snappy description
one has to use) they could have used the same code. The FCC tickets are
not valid on weekdays, but they are dated, and only issued with a
weekend (or bank holiday) date, so that should not permit any kind of
fraud even if they had the same magnetic strip encoding.

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Clive Page