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Megabus/trains getting off early??
John B wrote:
On 10 Jan, 00:17, Michael Hoffman wrote: Have relatives in Guildford, and would like to visit more often. A cheap day return is £11.50. But looking at megabus.com I can get a train ticket for Portsmouth which stops at Guildford on the way. Is there anything stopping me from booking with megabus far in advance and getting the ticket for £2 return and using it to get to Guildford and back again? It's disallowed under the rules. However, it would be perfectly legitimate for you to also purchase a £3.30 CDR from Woking to Guildford before boarding the train at Waterloo (all London - Guildford - Portsmouth trains stop at Woking, barring weird engineering chaos), and use that to escape the station... this way, there is no part of your journey that isn't covered by a valid ticket, just some parts that are double-covered. I wouldn't recommend trying this. The railways regularly manage to catch people who do things like buy Woking-Guildford tickets when they started at London. If you get caught in one of those stings, then they'd want to see that you have a valid ticket London-Woking. You don't. The railways catch people who buy Woking-Guildford tickets when they started at London by carrying out ticket checks between London and Woking. At which point, our man has a perfectly valid Megatrain ticket. That's not what I'm talking about. -- Michael Hoffman |
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