In message , at 12:15:48 on
Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Albert remarked:
Can someone explain why it is that if you buy a cheap-day return
from a station on the Brighton Line in Sussex to City-Thameslink you
are only allowed to return by First Capital Connect (ie. from C-T or
London Bridge) and not from Victoria? The ticket is marked "Route -


If you ask for "cheap day return to City Thameslink", surely the
natural assumption is that you want to return from City Thameslink?
If you wanted to return from a different London station, perhaps you
should have said so.

Our original intention was to return via City Thameslink, but it was
not until we were already in London that we noticed what the ticket
said, and though Victoria was now far nearer, we still had to go right
back to Ludgate Hill (hooray for pensioners' bus passes!). Being
seldom a train user, I thought "London Terminuses" meant just that, I
didn't realise they made these distinctions.

But you paid less for the specific ticket to City Thameslink. We've told
you about the more expensive one if you want to come back from Victoria.
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Roland Perry