Tim typed


Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:


The sweet shops known as 'Ticket Stops' will send you ODTC in advance,
as will Tube ticket offices.

Not in Yorkshire
No

If you buy in advance, do you have to choose the day or does it just
work for the day you first use it?

You buy for a specific date, which gets printed and encoded onto the
ticket. If it's off-peak, you tell the shop person you won't use if
before 0930 on a weekday.

You can only buy up to 4 days in advance IIRC. I suppose you could just
about get a friend/colleague in London to buy you one and post it to you
(if you trust the Royal Mail...)

Shame they haven't got 'capping' in order yet, isn't it?

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You can only buy up to 4 days in advance IIRC. I suppose you could just
about get a friend/colleague in London to buy you one and post it to you
(if you trust the Royal Mail...)

It is seven days for the one day and weekend travelcards, the four days is
for weeklys and longer. So even more time.

I would have thought the FastTicket machines at Kings Cross do one day
travelcards though and there must be about eight of them in the booking
hall.

"Graham J" typed


You can only buy up to 4 days in advance IIRC. I suppose you could just
about get a friend/colleague in London to buy you one and post it to you
(if you trust the Royal Mail...)

It is seven days for the one day and weekend travelcards, the four days is
for weeklys and longer. So even more time.

I would have thought the FastTicket machines at Kings Cross do one day
travelcards though and there must be about eight of them in the booking
hall.

Yebbut the entrance to the Underground closest to the rail station is
now for ticket holders only, isn't it? If Tim's come from Yorkshire, he
might not want a long detour to a big queue.

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Colum Mylod wrote in
:

Shirley (SCMS) the big O could allow immediate exit after entering?

I assume it's some kind of revenue protection thing along the lines of a
paper ticket not working entry barriers at the same station twice within
15 minutes. That was obviously designed to stop people passing their
ticket over the barrier to a friend waiting outside, so the problems with
Oyster working properly on immediate exit at the entry station would seem
to be of a similar nature.

Iain

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 05:28:17 +0100, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

"Graham J" typed


You can only buy up to 4 days in advance IIRC. I suppose you could just
about get a friend/colleague in London to buy you one and post it to you
(if you trust the Royal Mail...)

It is seven days for the one day and weekend travelcards, the four days is
for weeklys and longer. So even more time.

I would have thought the FastTicket machines at Kings Cross do one day
travelcards though and there must be about eight of them in the booking
hall.

Yebbut the entrance to the Underground closest to the rail station is
now for ticket holders only, isn't it? If Tim's come from Yorkshire, he
might not want a long detour to a big queue.

but it doesn't matter - there is a GNER ticket office, there was
certainly a Great Northern window to one side in the old days but it may
now be by platforms 9-11. There are also passenger operated machines. If
the LU windows were really bad there are machines and a ticket office at
Kings Cross Thameslink which has direct links to the Vic, Picc and
Northern Lines.
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Paul Corfield typed



Yebbut the entrance to the Underground closest to the rail station is
now for ticket holders only, isn't it? If Tim's come from Yorkshire, he
might not want a long detour to a big queue.

but it doesn't matter - there is a GNER ticket office, there was
certainly a Great Northern window to one side in the old days but it may
now be by platforms 9-11. There are also passenger operated machines. If
the LU windows were really bad there are machines and a ticket office at
Kings Cross Thameslink which has direct links to the Vic, Picc and
Northern Lines.

Umm... have you walked round Kings Cross stat^^^building site recently?

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"Helen Deborah Vecht" wrote in message
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Paul Corfield typed



Yebbut the entrance to the Underground closest to the rail station is
now for ticket holders only, isn't it?

As there's no easily accessable ticket office from the stairs down from
inside the mainline station, yes.

If Tim's come from Yorkshire, he
might not want a long detour to a big queue.


Not exactly a long detour, just outside the mainline station itself. There
are also three banks of ticket machines that can sell tickets, especially if
people are prepared and bring some change with them.

but it doesn't matter - there is a GNER ticket office, there was
certainly a Great Northern window to one side in the old days but it may
now be by platforms 9-11. There are also passenger operated machines. If
the LU windows were really bad there are machines and a ticket office at
Kings Cross Thameslink which has direct links to the Vic, Picc and
Northern Lines.


Personally, I'd never advise people to use the Thameslink ticket hall
because of the roads they have to cross.

Umm... have you walked round Kings Cross stat^^^building site recently?


Be fair Helen, the building work is hardly affecting the operation of the
station, at present. Wait until September when the Thameslink blockade and
WAGN services unable to run into Moorgate in October for the real 'fun' to
start. The reflooring of the passage between the Met and Tube ticket halls
is going to be interesting too!

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:29:01 +0100, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote:

Paul Corfield typed



Yebbut the entrance to the Underground closest to the rail station is
now for ticket holders only, isn't it? If Tim's come from Yorkshire, he
might not want a long detour to a big queue.

but it doesn't matter - there is a GNER ticket office, there was
certainly a Great Northern window to one side in the old days but it may
now be by platforms 9-11. There are also passenger operated machines. If
the LU windows were really bad there are machines and a ticket office at
Kings Cross Thameslink which has direct links to the Vic, Picc and
Northern Lines.

Umm... have you walked round Kings Cross stat^^^building site recently?

Not all of it no. I'm not aware that the inside of the main line station
is being torn to pieces at present and that is really what I am talking
about. I know the tube station and subways are subject to lots of
alterations.
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