"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 12:15:48 on Sun,
26 Jul 2009, Albert remarked:
Can someone explain why it is that if you buy a cheap-day return from a
station on the Brighton Line in Sussex to City-Thameslink you are only
allowed to return by First Capital Connect (ie. from C-T or London
Bridge) and not from Victoria? The ticket is marked "Route -

If you ask for "cheap day return to City Thameslink", surely the natural
assumption is that you want to return from City Thameslink? If you
wanted to return from a different London station, perhaps you should
have said so.

Our original intention was to return via City Thameslink, but it was not
until we were already in London that we noticed what the ticket said, and
though Victoria was now far nearer, we still had to go right back to
Ludgate Hill (hooray for pensioners' bus passes!). Being seldom a train
user, I thought "London Terminuses" meant just that, I didn't realise they
made these distinctions.



But you paid less for the specific ticket to City Thameslink. We've told
you about the more expensive one if you want to come back from Victoria.
--
Roland Perry

Yes, I realise that now you have explained, but I didn't at the time and was
puzzled as to what was going on.

Thanks for the clarifications folks.