Clive Page wrote:

On 21/08/2013 21:15, Peter Smyth wrote:
By a strict reading of the rules, the conductor was correct, a ticket
from Surbiton is only valid on trains that stop at Surbiton, while a
ticket from Boundary Zone 6 woule be valid on any train.

What I find surprising is that when you explicitly ask at a ticket
office for a ticket from the Boundary Zone to some station X, you are
often sold one from a specific station just inside the boundary. If you
query it they always say "this costs the same". That may be true but it
misses the point as the ticket validity is different. Is this because
some types of ticket machine make it hard for the ticket clerk to select
the BZ as the origin of the journey so they do this out of laziness, or
is there some other explanation?

You can even get sold the one from the station even if the Boundary Zone
one is more expensive one train an hour out of 4-6 doesn't stop) It
depends on which ticket seller you get.

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Mark