On 01/10/2011 13:57, Paul Scott wrote:
"The Gardener" wrote in message
...

It's not clear at which station the OP is trying to buy a ticket but I
guess, from the references to FGW, that it must be an FGW ticket
office.

It's quite clearly Finsbury Park if reading the original post in uk.t.l

The reference to FGW is an error...

Paul S

Possibly he meant First Capital Connect, which is hardly fair on FGW.

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We were about to embark at Dover, when (Roland Perry)
came up to me and whispered:

This is because the ticket is valid to more
than one London Terminal station provided it_s on any
reasonable line of route.

There is no reasonable route between Finsbury Park and Liverpool Street
via National Rail that doesn;t go via Cambridge.

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Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead
Wasting Bandwidth since 1981

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In message , at
21:51:00 on Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Paul Cummins
remarked:
This is because the ticket is valid to more
than one London Terminal station provided it_s on any
reasonable line of route.

There is no reasonable route between Finsbury Park and Liverpool Street
via National Rail that doesn;t go via Cambridge.

A ticket to London Terminals doesn't give you carte blanche to travel to
*any* of them you choose, as the explanation I posted earlier makes
clear.

You could always go via Highbury and Islington, then Goblin to
Stratford, as a more reasonable route than via Cambridge; but it's not
allowed either.
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Roland Perry

We were about to embark at Dover, when (Roland Perry)
came up to me and whispered:

A ticket to London Terminals doesn't give you carte blanche to
travel to *any* of them you choose, as the explanation I posted
earlier makes clear.

But starting at Finsbury Park to go to Liverpool Street is reasonable,
where starting at Brighton to go to Paddington is not.

--
Paul Cummins - Always a NetHead
Wasting Bandwidth since 1981

---- If it's below this line, I didn't write it ----

In message n, at
03:17:00 on Mon, 3 Oct 2011, Paul Cummins
remarked:
A ticket to London Terminals doesn't give you carte blanche to
travel to *any* of them you choose, as the explanation I posted
earlier makes clear.

But starting at Finsbury Park to go to Liverpool Street is reasonable,

Yes, but not if attempting to travel exclusively by National Rail
trains, which is what makes it unreasonable.

where starting at Brighton to go to Paddington is not.

So buy the correct ticket (Finsbury Park to Zone U12*), not one that
doesn't permit it.

ps As it happens, that ticket is the same price as the London Terminals
one, so the Moorgate-Liverpool St leg on the tube is effectively free,
compared to the closest you can get using the London Terminals ticket.
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Roland Perry