Does anyone know if I buy a return ticket from my home station to London (All), can I leave the train at a station along the way, leave the station passing through the automatic ticket barriers, then resume my journey to London later on? Or will the machines swallow my ticket?
Daft train ticket question
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It depends entirely on the ticket type you have and the restriction code on the ticket.
Where is the ticket from and how much is it?
[TW]Fox;25465769 said:
It'll be from a machine at my home station run by Southern so I guess it's them. Anytime Return according to National Rail - £36. The only restriction I'm aware of is I can't use Gatwick Express services which is not a problem.
So Horsham?
This is a completely restriction free ticket (Provided you follow the route on the ticket which is 'Not Gatwick Express', hence no Gatex) so you can get off and on again along the route if you wish and the barrier won't eat your ticket.
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If there is someone manning the barrier, try to show it to them to let you out in case the machine does takes it!
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The machine shouldn't take it because it doesn't have a destination which matches the station the barrier is at.
I think BrightonBelle means incase the machine swallows it. Which wont happen.
Well, not if you misread what I said
We are not talking about acceptance or rejection, we are talking about retention.
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In NI our ticket system is done via people manning the entrance and exit, we are too far advanced for your so called "machines" we show our ticket covering yesturdays date with our thumb and get a free train ride 
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Yup.
You never know! Better to be safe than sorry!
Ha ha... OP I want to know which you choose and what happens
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Yup.
You never know! Better to be safe than sorry!
Ha ha... OP I want to know which you choose and what happens
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What choice? I'm not going to show the guard my ticket before attempting to go through the barriers if that's what you mean. If it doesn't let me through (or swallows my ticket) I'll kick off big time and make out like I do this all the time
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Ok well good luck!
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Dorking to London tickets (to Victoria usually, if its Southern, Waterloo is going to be a South West Trains service) state that a break of journey is allowed. So I assume the same would be the case from Horsham.
From memory (I've only got it once, as going to Waterloo is more) the SWT tickets are the same.
You will be fine.
From memory (I've only got it once, as going to Waterloo is more) the SWT tickets are the same.
You will be fine.
The 'Route' printed on the ticket is irrelevent to whether you can break your journey along a permitted route. If he was 'fined' for 'getting off early' he was either not on a permitted route in the first place or held a ticket with a restriction code prohbiting break of journey or mandating the use of a particular train (ie an Advance).
None of this applies to the OP.
It is the case, very very very few Anytime Returns have a restriction code which prohibits break of journey.