On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:47:59 +0100, Barry Salter
wrote:

On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 15:10:30 +0100, Anonymouse
wrote:

I have a couple of questions:

- Is it correct that a national rail station cannot sell a zone 1-D
weekend travelcard (or a zone 1-D day travelcard)?

Yes.

- If it is correct, how should I buy this ticket in Croydon, several
miles from the nearest underground station, but within the London
Transport area?

You can't. They can only be sold at Underground stations, for reasons
best known to TfL.

I tried to do something similar at Richmond. Ticketman said I needed to go to a
London Underground station to do the deed. WTF? Isn't Richmond a London
Underground station, or am I missing something really obvious?

Marc Brett wrote:

I tried to do something similar at Richmond. Ticketman said I needed to go to a
London Underground station to do the deed. WTF? Isn't Richmond a London
Underground station, or am I missing something really obvious?

An opposite example - when the Evening Standard free rail ticket
promotion was running last month I tried to have a voucher validated at
West Ham, and was told to go to Barking or Upminster. Apparently, the
ticket office at West Ham is run by LT, even though it is also a C2C
station. At Farringdon, a couple of years ago, they were unable to sell
me a ticket to East Croydon, even though Thameslink trains run directly
between both points. Also, I was at Gunnersbury the other day and it
appeared that the ticket office there is operated by LT rather than
Silverlink. It seems that for each "shared" station the ticket office
will be operated by either LT or the TOC, but not jointly. Maybe
something for Ken to look at?

--
John Ray, London UK.

In article ,
John Ray wrote:
It seems that for each "shared" station the ticket office
will be operated by either LT or the TOC, but not jointly. Maybe
something for Ken to look at?

This is only true for smaller stations, I think. Where there is
only room for a small number of ticket windows then it is (normally?)
run by whoever is running the station as a whole. I think that
London TOCs and LUL can sell a subset of each other's tickets.

If there is room for more than one or two ticket windows then often
some will be run by NR or a NR TOC and some by LUL - see, for example,
the big terminal stations, and Stratford.

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You dont have to be illiterate to use the Internet, but it help's.

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:04:45 +0000 (UTC), Mike Bristow
wrote:

In article ,
John Ray wrote:
It seems that for each "shared" station the ticket office
will be operated by either LT or the TOC, but not jointly. Maybe
something for Ken to look at?

This is only true for smaller stations, I think. Where there is
only room for a small number of ticket windows then it is (normally?)
run by whoever is running the station as a whole. I think that
London TOCs and LUL can sell a subset of each other's tickets.

If there is room for more than one or two ticket windows then often
some will be run by NR or a NR TOC and some by LUL - see, for example,
the big terminal stations, and Stratford.

The LT Users Committee have investigated ticket sales at joint LT/NR
stations and recommended changes , see
/www.ltuc.org.uk/get_document.php?id=1513
--
Peter Lawrence

Peter Lawrence wrote:

The LT Users Committee have investigated ticket sales at joint LT/NR
stations and recommended changes , see
/www.ltuc.org.uk/get_document.php?id=1513

Thanks for that - I will have a look at it.

--
John Ray, London UK.

On Mon, 6 Sep 2004, John Ray wrote:

Marc Brett wrote:

I tried to do something similar at Richmond. Ticketman said I needed
to go to a London Underground station to do the deed. WTF? Isn't
Richmond a London Underground station, or am I missing something
really obvious?

It seems that for each "shared" station the ticket office will be
operated by either LT or the TOC, but not jointly. Maybe something for
Ken to look at?

I think he already has - ISTR this problem is mentioned in some sort of
strategy plan connected with the recent London Rail shenanigans.

tom

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