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    Can I upgrade a thameslink only ticket to any permitted?

    So if my ticket is actually valid on Southern and I decide to chance it on a day when there hasn't been a cancellation what's the impact. Worst case would I receive a PF that I'd then need to appeal on the basis its the same TOC. Is it still the view that all such appeals would be successful...
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    Can I upgrade a thameslink only ticket to any permitted?

    Great thanks. Why don't they include that in the automated announcements anytime a train is cancelled. Or at least have it on posters around the stations?
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    Can I upgrade a thameslink only ticket to any permitted?

    Is there a published policy or website link that shows you can use the next DfTO service if your train is cancelled? That solves all my problems. I've wasted so much time standing on the platform at gatwick unnecessarily if that is the case!
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    Can I upgrade a thameslink only ticket to any permitted?

    I travel from Preston Park to Gatwick using a Thameslink Brighton-Gatwick return ticket. Frequently on my return trip there's a painful period where the 15 past thameslink is cancelled and I often face a 30 minute wait for the next Thameslink service. In those scenarios, can I pay an excess and...
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    Train drivers’ decades-long ticket fraud ‘cost taxpayer millions

    Let’s see if they get the same treatment that passengers who are prosecuted for having a slightly out of date railcard face. I very much doubt it.
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    How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?

    Huge numbers of tourists have now realised gatwick express is a total rip off though hence why many of their services are usually pretty empty.
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    Unable to buy a ticket from Brighton or Preston Park to York

    I reported this to LNER and its still not fixed a week later with no trains shown apart from the odd random one on certain dates. Insane that people will be told no tickets are available or will end up buying two tickets for their journey and paying more than they need to. Surely it should...
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    How will Gatwick station cope with a second runway?

    In the morning peak in summer there are endless tourists with cases who struggle to get onto Thameslink services coming up from Brighton that are already full and standing. The moment there is any disruption or a cancelled train it is even worse. How do they propose handling the huge increase...
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    Railcard App didn't work - Advice needed

    Just about every app selling railcards doesn’t comply with the policy that railcards must always be available even with no connection. They have frequently updated themselves requiring you to sign in again. How about allowing railcards to be added to apple wallets so people would know how to...
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    Unable to buy a ticket from Brighton or Preston Park to York

    National rail and LNER sites are both refusing to give me any tickets from Brighton to York tomorrow. What is causing this?? Is it a temporary glitch or will I need to buy two separate tickets?
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    Expired Railcards

    Perhaps if the apps made this more visible to people then it wouldn’t be such a proglem The Trainline never emailed me about my railcard expiry and trying to display your railcard in some of these apps takes a ridiculous amount of menu navigation They could easily put a banner at the top...
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    Why aren’t RTV’s sold (or aren’t advertised) at ticket offices

    Some TOC’s send out vouchers from customer services in response to complaints or complicated delay repay messages that can’t be handled online. I certainly never requested a voucher from cross country and ended up watching it expire as I didn’t want to go to a ticket office an hour before...
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    Why aren’t RTV’s sold (or aren’t advertised) at ticket offices

    The last time I tried to use a voucher at a ticket office I was told they did them so rarely they would have to remember how to do them, their bar code scanner didn’t work so everything had to be typed in, and I’d miss my train if I insisted on using the RTV They should be phased out and TOC’s...
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    Trip.com app issues with Railcards

    I thought the RDG mandated that railcard apps should display the railcard without requiring internet access. It’s time they banned companies who don’t comply from selling railcards. I’ve also experienced the trainline app forcing you to sign in again when it has updated meaning you can’t...
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    Impossible to buy Thameslink tickets with rail replacement today

    It’s also impossible to buy a ticket for the bus journey from Three Bridges to Preston Park Even more amusingly there are buses running from three bridges to Brighton they are just not telling people about them
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    Impossible to buy Thameslink tickets with rail replacement today

    There is a rail replacement today between Three Bridges and Brighton If you attempt to buy a ticket from London Blackfriars to Brighton the booking engines say no routes found and won’t sell you one Are you no longer expected to have a ticket for the bus replacement if you can only buy a...
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    SWR sale of invalid tickets

    Wonder how many people will have paid unnecessary fines in this situation. I bet SWR won’t make any effort at all to check for other similar fines that have not been appealed. The train companies should be forced to pay substantial compensation everytime they make mistakes like this .
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    What happens if you miss your train as barriers are programmed to reject valid tickets

    But GTR is happy to let mobile tickets through that are advance but not paper tickets so the policy makes no sense. Even funnier some of the tickets are &connections so nobody on the gate would have a clue what train somebody should be using to catch a train later from London Last time I was...
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    What happens if you miss your train as barriers are programmed to reject valid tickets

    At Brighton station if you collect any paper ticket from the machine that is an advance ticket then the ticket barriers will reject it. (Although this doesn’t happen with mobile tickets) You are then forced to line up to go through the gate which is pointless as in 10 years nobody has even...
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    Unable to use card to collect tickets from machine

    I’ve since realised that if you force the card in really hard it does usually work. The obvious solution would be to immediately give an error saying card could not be read. People would then know to try again. Letting people go all the way through to say the card can not be used is just a...

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