On Apr 24, 9:59*am, Mr Thant
wrote:

On 24 Apr, 02:23, wrote:

The restrictions you quoted only referred with any clarity to routings
from the Thameslink (Midland) line. My questions were about the GN where
what you cite seems not so unambiguous to me. As I said, it's what I've
been told by different people on several different occasions for different
journeys.

I think the best way to think of the current regime is as FCC running
a tube service between St Pancras and City Thameslink. Trains from
Bedford et al terminate at SPILL, become a tube service, and restart
again at City Thameslink, and only people with cross-London tickets
are allowed to make the through journey. Taking a train from SPILL to
City Thameslink on your Cambridge-London ticket is the same as trying
to take the tube from KXSP to, say, Victoria.

U

Quite. If you've got a ticket to "London Thameslink" or a ticket
marked "Route: Thameslink" then Thameslink can obviously be used, but
under the rules "London Terminals" tickets do not get one across town.

That's not to say that people using them to do so are evil wrongdoers
- the amount of misunderstanding about this issue is immense,
including amongst rail staff (and FCC bods really should know
better!). It's not helped by some self-service ticket machines
erroneously issuing tickets to "London Terminals" when a Thameslink
destination was specified, and also the fact that from some stations
the fares to London Terminals and central Thameslink stations are the
same price.