On Sep 6, 11:53 pm, "John Salmon" wrote:
Not usually true in my experience; it's a myth started by one of the
denigrators of GNER in uk.railway. I travelled from Retford to
London and back today using GNER Advance tickets, sitting in
unreserved coach H each way, wth no difficulty. Of course, they are
entitled to make you occupy your reserved seat, and apparently it
happens occasionally - but never to me.

Yeah, but GNER do have a rule to that effect, and the other companies
doing advance tickets don't, so it's something to look out for.

U

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On 8 Sep, 12:48, Mr Thant
wrote:
Yeah, but GNER do have a rule to that effect, and the other companies
doing advance tickets don't, so it's something to look out for.

People have quoted experiences of GNER staff stating that a ticket is
invalid if you're not in your reserved seat, and not for the entire
journey. This means you can't join the train later on, or leave before
the destination. I can see this being likely because of the time our
TM spent checking our tickets and his list, because I'd removed the
reserved tags (to read them because of the whole Airline/Aisle/Window
confusion) and left them on the table - albeit in clear view of him.

Obviously, they're going to struggle to do anything if you leave early
as we did on the way back, getting off at Stevenage when our ticket
was to King's Cross!!

I must say that, while I am always ready for any impending battle or
argument with a gripper that is trying it on, the fact that people can
be treated like this (or believe that they might) would put many
people off travelling in the first place. I know that the staff are
stuck a little, because nobody (especially myself) want to see people
getting away without buying a ticket, but there are different ways to
treat people.

Jonathan

Today at 07:21, jonmorris wrote:
Obviously, they're going to struggle to do anything if you leave early
as we did on the way back, getting off at Stevenage when our ticket
was to King's Cross!!

Am I not right in saying that if you join or leave a service not at the
stated places on any single ticket, the ticket is effectively invalid?

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