Sorry if this has been asked and answered but I couldn't find the
answers in this group or elsewhere.

Platform tickets are still mentioned in
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...e_May_2009.pdf
in Section 9:

"If you are in a compulsory ticket area you must have a ticket or Oyster
card that is valid and available for the whole of the journey you are
making. If you are not making a journey and you do not hold a ticket or
Oyster card that is both valid and available for travel you must buy a
Platform ticket where it is possible to do so. Otherwise you will be
liable to pay a Penalty fare or you may be prosecuted."

What I cannot find is when/where they are and are not available; how one
buys a platform ticket where they are available;and the price. It does
not help that there is no mention of them in other publications for the
tube and overground (eg
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-zones1-6.pdf).

Also, is a platform ticket *always* available when barriers are in use?
If not, how am I supposed to access the platform without using my Oyster
PAYG and so incurring the cost of a one zone journey when touching in
and out at the same station?



--
R

In message , at
13:08:01 on Sat, 4 Jul 2009, neverwas remarked:
Sorry if this has been asked and answered but I couldn't find the
answers in this group or elsewhere.

Platform tickets are still mentioned in
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...e_May_2009.pdf
in Section 9:

"If you are in a compulsory ticket area you must have a ticket or Oyster
card that is valid and available for the whole of the journey you are
making. If you are not making a journey and you do not hold a ticket or
Oyster card that is both valid and available for travel you must buy a
Platform ticket where it is possible to do so. Otherwise you will be
liable to pay a Penalty fare or you may be prosecuted."

What I cannot find is when/where they are and are not available; how one
buys a platform ticket where they are available;and the price. It does
not help that there is no mention of them in other publications for the
tube and overground (eg
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-zones1-6.pdf).

As far as I can tell, they are almost completely extinct.

Also, is a platform ticket *always* available when barriers are in use?
If not, how am I supposed to access the platform without using my Oyster
PAYG and so incurring the cost of a one zone journey when touching in
and out at the same station?

I expect people would say "why do you want to do that?" It might be
possible to get the fare refunded at the ticket office, if you had a
plausible excuse as to why you decided to abandon your 'journey'.
--
Roland Perry

I expect people would say "why do you want to do that?"

Perhaps I should have said that even in these days of suitcases with
wheels there are people who appreciate help with them - especially at
stations which are not step-free. (Two I have direct experience of are
Homerton and Bromley-By-Bow. And yes, that's no doubt what I deserve
for living in Hackney.)

--
R

In message , at
13:31:02 on Sat, 4 Jul 2009, neverwas remarked:
I expect people would say "why do you want to do that?"

Perhaps I should have said that even in these days of suitcases with
wheels there are people who appreciate help with them - especially at
stations which are not step-free.

I know that's a "reasonable excuse" in some people's eyes. But they
don't allow it, for example, at airports, where you could make the
excuse of helping an elderly person up the stairs into the plane.

Restrictions are constantly nibbling away at what we are allowed to do,
and lack of platform tickets are but one recent example of this.
--
Roland Perry

In article ,
(neverwas) wrote:

Sorry if this has been asked and answered but I couldn't find the
answers in this group or elsewhere.

Platform tickets are still mentioned in

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...Guide_May_2009.
pdf
in Section 9:

"If you are in a compulsory ticket area you must have a ticket or Oyster
card that is valid and available for the whole of the journey you are
making. If you are not making a journey and you do not hold a ticket or
Oyster card that is both valid and available for travel you must buy a
Platform ticket where it is possible to do so. Otherwise you will be
liable to pay a Penalty fare or you may be prosecuted."

What I cannot find is when/where they are and are not available; how one
buys a platform ticket where they are available;and the price. It does
not help that there is no mention of them in other publications for the
tube and overground (eg
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-zones1-6.pdf).

Also, is a platform ticket *always* available when barriers are in use?
If not, how am I supposed to access the platform without using my Oyster
PAYG and so incurring the cost of a one zone journey when touching in
and out at the same station?

At Cambridge I ask and am let through the barriers without a ticket every
time.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote in message
...
In article ,
(neverwas) wrote:



Also, is a platform ticket *always* available when barriers are in use?
If not, how am I supposed to access the platform without using my Oyster
PAYG and so incurring the cost of a one zone journey when touching in
and out at the same station?

At Cambridge I ask and am let through the barriers without a ticket every
time.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

I have often had to help an elderley relative on and off the train at
Reading and I ask at the barrier and am given a laminated permit to go on
the platform for a temporary period which I then hand back when I leave the
platform. I do show my priv card, whether that makes a difference I don't
know,
Lawrie

"Lawrie" wrote:

I have often had to help an elderley relative on and off the train at
Reading and I ask at the barrier and am given a laminated permit to go on
the platform for a temporary period which I then hand back when I leave the
platform. I do show my priv card, whether that makes a difference I don't
know.


They aren't usually given out at Reading for people who want to
watch/photograph trains, only for people who have a demonstrable need to
meet/greet or see off a relative/friend.

In article ,
(Tony Polson) wrote:

"Lawrie" wrote:

I have often had to help an elderley relative on and off the train at
Reading and I ask at the barrier and am given a laminated permit to go
on the platform for a temporary period which I then hand back when I
leave the platform. I do show my priv card, whether that makes a
difference I don't know.

They aren't usually given out at Reading for people who want to
watch/photograph trains, only for people who have a demonstrable need to
meet/greet or see off a relative/friend.

No vouchers at Cambridge but I've had no problem accessing the platforms
for watching/photographing trains as well as for helping a departing
relative.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:

In article ,
(Tony Polson) wrote:

"Lawrie" wrote:

I have often had to help an elderley relative on and off the train at
Reading and I ask at the barrier and am given a laminated permit to go
on the platform for a temporary period which I then hand back when I
leave the platform. I do show my priv card, whether that makes a
difference I don't know.

They aren't usually given out at Reading for people who want to
watch/photograph trains, only for people who have a demonstrable need to
meet/greet or see off a relative/friend.

No vouchers at Cambridge but I've had no problem accessing the platforms
for watching/photographing trains as well as for helping a departing
relative.


It's a particular problem at Reading. Gone are the days when you would
see trainspotters on the platform ends. Nowadays, the only spotters or
Photographers you see are people who are starting or ending their
journeys at Reading, or changing trains.

I used to enjoy whiling away an hour or two at Reading station, having a
coffee or a drink from the bar or even a burger and chips from Casey
Jones on Platform 4 (if I recall correctly). Now the station is about
as easy to get into as Fort Knox, and it is staffed by the unusually
hostile and ignorant knuckle-dragging Neanderthals that First Great
Western seem to employ in so many key positions ...

On Jul 5, 8:23*pm, Tony Polson wrote:
wrote:
In article ,
(Tony Polson) wrote:

"Lawrie" wrote:

I have often had to help an elderley relative on and off the train at
Reading and I ask at the barrier and am given a laminated permit to go
on the platform for a temporary period which I then hand back when I
leave the platform. *I do show my priv card, whether that makes a
difference I don't know.

They aren't usually given out at Reading for people who want to
watch/photograph trains, only for people who have a demonstrable need to
meet/greet or see off a relative/friend.

No vouchers at Cambridge but I've had no problem accessing the platforms
for watching/photographing trains as well as for helping a departing
relative.

It's a particular problem at Reading. *Gone are the days when you would
see trainspotters on the platform ends. *Nowadays, the only spotters or
Photographers you see are people who are starting or ending their
journeys at Reading, or changing trains.

I used to enjoy whiling away an hour or two at Reading station, having a
coffee or a drink from the bar or even a burger and chips from Casey
Jones on Platform 4 (if I recall correctly). *Now the station is about
as easy to get into as Fort Knox, and it is staffed by the unusually
hostile and ignorant knuckle-dragging Neanderthals that First Great
Western seem to employ in so many key positions ...

You could pay a quid for a ticket to Reading West, of course.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org