London Banter - View Single Post - Super-Off Peak Day Travelcards from Cambridge

[email protected] · March 1st 11, 02:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Clive Page)
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In message ,
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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.

It's always NXEA in my case because they always issue me the tickets at
Cambridge, whether for King's Cross or Liverpool St.

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.

Probably. They did have problems getting the ticket machines at Cambridge
to sell them until people complained. Loads of punters were buying
standard Off-Peak tickets at weekends and getting fleeced.

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.

Actually FCC did make Super-Off-Peak tickets available on weekdays for a
period last summer.

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Colin Rosenstiel