Travelling overnight

Jonathan Stott wrote:
> What's the deal with breaking a journey overnight in this case? What
> would have happened if I didn't have enough money to pay for the second
> lot of tickets? I know that I probably should have been sold the two
> single tickets but I did ask just in case I was able to buy a single
> ticket. Hopefully I should be able to get the £49.60 back for the ticket
> that was apparently not valid.

I'm not sure, but I'd have refused to pay for a new ticket. A small
excess (sounds like the difference was £6.30) maybe, but no way a new
ticket.

You should definitely demand to get that money back, and I'd say try to
get the 2nd lot of tickets back (just to prove a point) and a full
apology.

I find it very concerning that passengers are treated as abysmally as
this.

Jonathan Stott wrote:

> It was nearly midnight - I wasn't in the frame of mind to argue
> excessively with a conductor. An excess was out of the question seeing
> as the ticket that I had purchased (apparently) wouldn't be valid and a
> new ticket covering the whole journey would have to be issued.

Not technically true.

Your ticket was fine for the journey as far as you could go on the
first day - no question at all about that. On ordinary tickets, you
are allowed to abandon your journey short of the final destination.

However, you were probably right to get two new tickets, because if
you had abandoned your journey and just bought a ticket for the second
day, you would have found it difficult or impossible to claim back any
difference.

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