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D A Stocks[_2_] · May 16th 11, 10:54 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On Sun, 15 May 2011 16:34:24 +0100, "D A Stocks"
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to do anything about it. This cost me about £18 in single fares to
continue my journeys that day for the loss of a ticket that had only
cost about £12 in the first place.

Er, why not purchase another Travelcard if that was cheaper?

A combination of an offer price that was only available online, and
I didn't have time to queue for half an hour for the ticket office,
so it was a case of using Oyster PAYG and then buying an NR single
from a machine to get me home. I don't think the NR machines at
Victoria would sell a Brighton to Z1-6 travelcard anyway.

Why couldn't you have gone back to the barrier and got the staff to return
the ticket that had been taken in error? I've seen it done before now.

I did try this but by the time I realised what had happened I couldn't
remember which gate I had gone through and the staff weren't about to open
up each gate in turn on a busy morning with a lot of people going through.

DAS