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

Today's routing guide says the only map to use for such a ticket is
EE (initially I suppose it may have said WA[1]), which reveals just
two mapped routes (which are also direct trains, so the map isn't
adding anything) to Kings Cross and Moorgate.

So how does one get to Liverpool Street?

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

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

In message , at
16:43:00 on Sun, 2 Oct 2011, Paul Cummins
remarked:
Today's routing guide says the only map to use for such a ticket is
EE (initially I suppose it may have said WA[1]), which reveals just
two mapped routes (which are also direct trains, so the map isn't
adding anything) to Kings Cross and Moorgate.

So how does one get to Liverpool Street?

On a Finsbury Park to London Terminals ticket? Not at all, I presume.
(Other than "Moorgate and walk a hundred yards")

See the quite good wording signposted earlier:

"Tickets issued for travel to/from London usually show 'London
Terminals' as the destination/origin rather than naming a
specific station. This is because the ticket is valid to more
than one London Terminal station provided it’s on any
reasonable line of route. Tickets can only be used on National
Rail services. For example, a ticket from Brighton to London
Terminals is valid to Victoria, Waterloo (changing at Clapham
Junction), London Bridge, Blackfriars and City Thameslink or
Charing Cross Waterloo East or Cannon Street (changing at London
Bridge). It would not be valid to, for example, London Euston or
Paddington as this would not be on the line of route and would
involve crossing London using another mode of transport."

--
Roland Perry

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.

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

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

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.
--
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.
--
Roland Perry