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For example, Cambridge-LU Zones 1-2. Not sure why it'd make any difference?

I'm resurrecting my own thread. How about a Cambridge-London Underground Zones tickets? Can I travel with one of those to e.g. London Bridge and then change to tube? Or do I strictly have to follow the validity of a London Terminals tickets and start my tube journey from Kings Cross/St...

I'm pretty sure that years ago, I asked a question about it here, and the conclusion was that a regular Cambridge-London Terminals ticket is valid to Kings Cross, St Pancras, Liverpool Street and Moorgate (including the less-known tube transfer from Kings Cross). I also knew that...

I was aware of that, but the wording is very vague. In my case, the ticket is perfectly legible, but surely not scannable. At the same time, you can argue that tickets that have been accidentally de-magnetised can't be validated either. The thing is: am I willing to take the gamble and just use...

Sure, but that doesn't sound like a very believable story and I'm certain many guards/RPIs would not like that. I can try getting it endorsed, but it might be too late now. I do hold another valid ticket for that route, so if I travel I'm technically not breaching any rules - but I don't want...

I'll definitely do that, but what do I do when I land at Stansted tonight and want to continue my journey to London?

This morning, I was travelling to Stansted Airport using the return portion of a Cambridge-London anytime return - I was planning to continue to London after I land (with a potential additional BOJ at Bishop's Storftord). This ticket is valid via Stansted, but almost every time I used it at...

Yes, but that mostly talks about origin and destination, which in this scenario would remain correct. It does say that travel has to be "appropriate to the route of the through journey being made" - but what exactly does that mean? When does a route stop being appropriate in London?

I had this random thought today - is there any requirement for the LU segment as part of a cross-London transfer to make logical sense? Let's say I have a ticket that requires me to take the tube between King's Cross and Victoria. The obvious route is Victoria line, I'm sure some would travel on...

I know that Cambridge-London tickets are valid via Stansted Airport, but does the same apply to every ticket that goes through London ('Any permitted route')? I might have to go Gatwick and/or Canterbury, but return to Stansted - would a regular return ticket be valid? On a side note, almost...

That's smart - might use that from now on!

Maybe (though I'd say that starting short, especially in London, is not fringe behaviour), but the solution is incredibly simple - allow for individual segments to be entered for the journey details, or include a free form text box, at least when re-submitting.

Yes, but the alternative is often inputting the journey I didn't actually take. Recent example is with SWR. Had a Finsbury Park-Earley ticket. SWR from Waterloo to Earley was late, so submitted just that portion in my claim, ignored the tube I took from Finsbury Park. Claim rejected and more...

This has been making me irrationally angry over a few months. I submitted a few different delay repay claims, with different TOCs. If the ticket is for a non-stop journey on one TOC, then everything is simple and claim is usually successful. But when I try to claim within a journey that involved...

Thameslink train was cancelled and I got delayed by over 2 hours. Filled in the form, got rejected on the basis that they "can't find the journey you intended to make, so we're unable to verify if any delay took place" (which of course is ironic, given that you have to find a service when you...

That's actually the point of my post - you'd think that not many people would want to be the 3rd (still understandable for some cases) or especially the 4th (absolute torture for everyone involved) person in a table cluster, but that's the opposite of what I found during my commute. Almost every...

The topic of how the trains fill up is something I could write another post, because I also have a lot of observations. Like you, I also commuted to London a bit later normally (generally the earliest train would be departing Cambridge at 8:42, though nowadays I tend to take earlier ones), but...

That's exactly what I was doing, and very often when I took an exception to that because I thought the train might be fairly empty, I ended up being surrounded by 3 people at my table. I agree, but I'd much rather just vet a single person at an airline seat than 3 at a table set!

So, I commuted between Cambridge and King's Cross with mostly Great Northern and occasionally Thameslink for over three years. I'd travel at different times, usually after 9 in the morning and therefore skip the busiest times, but would often take busy trains back in the afternoon. Either way...

Are there any time restrictions on off peak-tickets to or from one of the London zones? The ticket I'm looking at is Oxford-LU Zones. On the return portion, the first service from Paddington that's allowed on this ticket is 9:23. Am I allowed to use the tube to actually reach Paddington in...