How to Use Trainline Ticket

[EW1234]

I have been issued with a Notice of Prosecution and will respond accordingly when I receive the letter. In the interim I have bought two return tickets to my home station and will begin to buy a weekly and then monthly ticket to show my willingness to never short fare again. My question in the interim is:

When entering a station that does not have an e-ticket reader... is it sufficient to only scan your e-ticket at your arrival station.

I have noticed that the ticket barrier often shows a red light when scanning. This happened today despite buying a return ticket and entering at the correct station.

 

[redreni]

When entering a station that does not have an e-ticket reader... is it sufficient to only scan your e-ticket at your arrival station.

Of course. What other option is there?

Assuming the station where you start your journey is one where you're allowed to start your journey with the ticket(s) you have?

 

[EW1234]

I wasn't sure if there is a method of scanning that I have been unaware of.
To answer your question... the station is one I'm allowed to start my journey on.

 

[Bletchleyite]

I have been issued with a Notice of Prosecution and will respond accordingly when I receive the letter. In the interim I have bought two return tickets to my home station and will begin to buy a weekly and then monthly ticket to show my willingness to never short fare again. My question in the interim is:

When entering a station that does not have an e-ticket reader... is it sufficient to only scan your e-ticket at your arrival station.

I have noticed that the ticket barrier often shows a red light when scanning. This happened today despite buying a return ticket and entering at the correct station.

It is not necessary to scan e-tickets at all unless a member of staff or gateline requires you to do so. It's not a "compostage" style system like the French have where a scan is necessary to start validity.

If the gateline doesn't open, you ask the member of staff staffing it to let you through, and assuming it's valid they will do so.

 

[cjohnson]

The small amber light next to the Oyster/Contactless readers does, in my experience at e.g. Waterloo/Victoria, turn red when a valid e-ticket is scanned on the separate 'barcode' reader (whereas they turn green when presenting a valid Oyster or Contactless card) despite the barriers opening. Not very intuitive and I can see how that has the potential to cause confusion.

 

[methecooldude]

The small amber light next to the Oyster/Contactless readers does, in my experience at e.g. Waterloo/Victoria, turn red when a valid e-ticket is scanned on the separate 'barcode' reader (whereas they turn green when presenting a valid Oyster or Contactless card) despite the barriers opening. Not very intuitive and I can see how that has the potential to cause confusion.

If I'm not mistaken, it does that to indicate a "not ready" status and normally resets quite quickly after the person with the eTicket goes though the barrier. The eTicket scanners are effectively bolt ons to the Cubic gates, and, again as far as I'm aware, shares the communication lines with the Oyster/ITSO reader, hence why if the barcode scanner breaks, it takes Oyster/ITSO reading with it