Buying a 7 day ticket for the following week...

[Hawkeye448]

Is there a reason why 7 day tickets for Monday onwards cant be purchased until I think 4.00 the day before?

Now ive learnt how to use the ticket machines I thought I might get past the block but no, date change greyed out and unselectable.

The guards on the trains selling tickets with the machines can sell me Monday mornings new ticket on the journey home Friday afternoon but not ticket offices or machines

What is the reason for this?

 

[ChrisTheRef]

It's just to prevent fraudulent travel.

Ticket offices can physically sell them, we're just instructed not to.

 

[yorkie]

Is there not a rule that allows them to be sold on Friday afternoons when the first day of validity is a Monday?

 

[87015]

Because a start date is not encoded on them, so it'll work the barriers from whenever it is issued.

Which is top stuff for effing

 

[Mojo]

FGW's website has their own rules on it: http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Content.aspx?id=41

They'll only sell a 7 day on a Friday (after 12 noon) if it's a renewal.

 

[Caped Crusader]

If there is no break of continuity ie: Your current ticket expires on the Sunday (last day of validity) and the start date of the new ticket is Monday, then the manual states the ticket can be issued from noon on the previous Friday.

 

[hairyhandedfool]

Most TOCs (I can't say for all) will sell you a weekly renewal on Friday afternoon, to start on the Monday (or Tuesday if it's a Bank Holiday weekend), provided there is no gap between the tickets.

 

[Flamingo]

We can't sell them on-board for the next day (to prevent them being used for that days journey)- which can be a bummer sometimes! :cry:

 

[reb0118]

We can't sell them on-board for the next day (to prevent them being used for that days journey)- which can be a bummer sometimes! :cry:

I think it is still possible - go into the tertiary menu screen, select season enquiry & advance the date forward. Check that the pax has a season valid up to the day before the new one starts, withdraw that one, and issue new season.

 

[Flamingo]

I think it is still possible - go into the tertiary menu screen, select season enquiry & advance the date forward. Check that the pax has a season valid up to the day before the new one starts, withdraw that one, and issue new season.

I'll try to remember that, thanks

 

[Solent&Wessex]

I think it is still possible - go into the tertiary menu screen, select season enquiry & advance the date forward. Check that the pax has a season valid up to the day before the new one starts, withdraw that one, and issue new season.

Yes, I use that method regularly. I can do a good line in renewals on evening trains sometimes. The Passengers like it as it saves them time at the booking office. As I say to them, might as well do it whilst moving and save time when you aren't!