"asdf" wrote in message
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:42:23 +0100, "tim \(moved to sweden\)"
wrote:

Does anyone know why I can't buy a return ticket between Thornton
Heath and Gatwick returning on a different date from when I start out?

For no more reason than, because you can't.

More specifically, because an open period return does not
exist for that journey (but TBH I don't think that tells you
any more than the first line that I wrote)

Unless tickets are checked often, daily commuters would be able to get
away with buying this type of ticket and re-using it every day, only
needing to buy a new one if the old one gets inspected and stamped.
The train companies don't want to have to check tickets frequently
enough to prevent this. So they just don't sell period returns at all
where they can help it.

This may be the reason why they don't sell them.

It isn't the reason why he can't buy one :-)

tim