In message , Duncan
writes
Could be interesting to see how they can enforce these restrictions,
since a passenger holding a Travelcard may use the service until Elstree
without restriction and passengers joining from Cricklewood travelling
North can travel without restriction.

http://www.firstcapitalconnect.co.uk...DL_Leaflet.pdf

The small print has been fairly carefully worded to restrict travel
according to the journey you are making, not just the type of ticket you
use. This is presumably intended to cover the case of passengers from
the outer zones (say Bedford) buying (a) a cheap day return
Bedford-Elstree, and also (b) a London one-day travel-card from Elstree.
My understanding is that these could legally be combined on a train
which did not stop at Elstree, since one is a zonal ticket and the other
is not, and the combined cost would not be much more than the London one
day travel-card from Bedford. But the "journey" restrictions might
prevent returning from London to Bedford in the peak-period. (I have
used examples on the Bedford line, but similar remarks would apply to
the other FCC lines affected by the new restrictions).

On the other hand if you got a train which actually stopped at Elstree,
alighted for a moment, and then boarded the same train again, could you
claim to be making two separate journeys, each one not subject to the
evening peak restriction? I suspect that the train companies would
claim that this was just one journey not two, but how they would prove
that you boarded the same train and not another one, I don't know. The
matter will probably have to be tested in court. I just hope I'm not
the first one to have to test it that way.


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