London Banter - View Single Post - Thameslink/FCC ticket validity question again

Colin Rosenstiel · March 4th 08, 12:02 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Mizter T) wrote:

IIRC, I bought a Saver Return ticket to Gatwick from the ticket
machine at KX Thameslink, which listed Gatwick and London Terminals
as my destinations. Going through the gates and getting out to the
airport was not a problem, but the return was another story as the
gates would not let me exit back at KX Thameslink.

One of the attendents then told me that the ticket was not good as
the destination was London Terminals, although he waved me through.

So,

-- Why was I sold that ticket if there was going to be a problem with

my getting back? Was it actually me who purchased the wrong ticket?
If so, then what ticket should I have purchased?

Because the ticket machine was very badly programmed badly. Anyone
buying tickets at KX Thameslink for a trip to Gatwick quite obviously
wants to use Thameslink through central London to get there. The
ticket machine there shouldn't have even offered anything else.

A properly issued ticket for that journey would have specified Kings
Cross Thameslink as the named station of origin station (*not* London
Terminals).

Isn't a St Pancras International-Gatwick ticket cheaper now as well?

--
Colin Rosenstiel