Train - Underground tickets

Is it just me? I cant buy a ticket online (trainline, qjump, fgw) for a
Zone12 - (random station) online

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Posted in his lunch hour too.

Paul Weaver wrote:

> Is it just me? I cant buy a ticket online (trainline, qjump, fgw) for a
> Zone12 - (random station) online

You can't buy a ticket FROM a LU station to a National Rail station from
anywhere other than an LU station or jointly-staffed station.
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Michael Hoffman

In article <co769q$r1e$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
m.h.3.9.1.without.dots.at.cam.ac.uk@example.com (Michael Hoffman) wrote:

> Paul Weaver wrote:
>
> > Is it just me? I cant buy a ticket online (trainline, qjump, fgw) for
> > a Zone12 - (random station) online
>
> You can't buy a ticket FROM a LU station to a National Rail station
> from anywhere other than an LU station or jointly-staffed station.

You can't buy a ticket online *to* an Underground destination either. You
can at NR ticket offices. PITA.

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Colin Rosenstiel

In article <41a9ff24$0$48222$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net>,
localhost@[127.0.0.1] (Darren) wrote:

> Colin Rosenstiel wrote:
>
> > You can't buy a ticket online *to* an Underground destination either.
> > You can at NR ticket offices. PITA.
>
> Can SPORTIS issue tickets to an individual Underground station[1]? On
> the train here whenever someone asks for a tube station, the reply from
> the conductor is usually "is that in the 6 zones" and after the reply
> "OK then - travelcard"
>
> [1] Yeah, you'd probably have to get it swapped at Marks Tey/Liverpool
> Street for a gate friendly ticket, but you have to do that with an
> R1256 anyway.

My use of tickets to Underground zones is for longer than day trips. If
you go over one day all the NR/TfL ticketing integration goes to pot.

I don't know about Sportis which is now obsolete here but the portable
machines currently used by WAGN can do tickets to Underground zones I
think, as well as the Shere machines in Cambridge station.

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Colin Rosenstiel

Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

> I don't know about Sportis which is now obsolete here but the portable
> machines currently used by WAGN can do tickets to Underground zones I
> think, as well as the Shere machines in Cambridge station.
>

Probably down to staff training issues/easier to remember the code for
All Zones TC, than look up the individual zone fares, rather then
limitations of Sportis.
We're getting Advantix on this side soon so Sportis is finally being
retired, which will be a fun few weeks on the peak trains!

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Darren

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:26:00 +0000, Colin Rosenstiel wrote:

> In article <co769q$r1e$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
> m.h.3.9.1.without.dots.at.cam.ac.uk@example.com (Michael Hoffman) wrote:
>
>> Paul Weaver wrote:
>>
>> > Is it just me? I cant buy a ticket online (trainline, qjump, fgw) for
>> > a Zone12 - (random station) online
>>
>> You can't buy a ticket FROM a LU station to a National Rail station
>> from anywhere other than an LU station or jointly-staffed station.
>
> You can't buy a ticket online *to* an Underground destination either. You
> can at NR ticket offices. PITA.

Indeed, found out this evening I've got to be on the 06:10 from Twyford
tommorrow morning. Ticket office isn't open at that time, but you get a
(floppy) ticket on the train. They'd better sell me the £8 YP single
Twy-Zone32. I could have picked it up at work (we have a fast ticket
machine) before I left tonight, but I cant buy that ticket.

A pain anyway as I hate floppy tickets.