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Your ticket is your proof of purchase and is your entitlement (in most cases) to travel. Please remember to keep it safe, clean, dry (yes some people think its funny to soak the ticket), and always keep it to the end of your journey. Your journey does not end when you get off the train, it ends when you leave the railway station.
When you get off the train please take your ticket out of your wallet and have it ready for inspection by the ticket inspectors at the station entrances/exits. Always assume there will be ticket checks.
If there are automatic ticket gates, you will need to put your tickets through the slot below the big green arrow. Just because your a lazy communter who cant be bothered to take your annual gold card out of your wallet doesnt mean you can go through the wide gate. You have to put your tickets through the gates like everyone else has to. Your not special you know!
Did you know that if you fail to go through the ticket gates correctly that you are in breech of a railway byelaw?
9. Stations and railway premises
(2) Where the entrance to or exit from any platform or station is via a manned or an automatic ticket barrier no person shall enter or leave the station, except with permission from an authorised person, without passing through the barrier in the correct manner.
Correct manner is described as above, and NOT THROUGH THE WIDE GATE.
If you fail to show a vaild ticket on demand by an authorised official (that includes ticket collectors, fraud officer and security guards) that you are also in breech of a railway byelaw.
17. Compulsory Ticket Areas
(2) A person shall hand over his ticket for inspection and verification of validity when asked to do so by an authorised person.
18. Ticketless travel in non-compulsory ticket areas.
(2) A person shall hand over his ticket for inspection and verification of validity when asked to do so by an authorised person.
That meens that if you are asked for your ticket, you must take it out of your wallet and hand it to an authorised official. Just flashing it is not acceptable.
However if your season ticket generally does not work, i.e. not because you want to save time and are a lazy communter who cant be bothered to get it out of your wallet, you can go to the ticket office to get a replacement free of charge. If you have to do this once a week then you must do it once a week.~
Keeping your ticket next to a blackberry, a mobile phone, an oystercard or somthing that generates a magnetic field will wipe your ticket and make the ticket barriers reject your ticket.
Its that time of the year again - the end of the year. Fare increases are coming. Good old ATOC keep using the same old excuse that the money is needed to pay for the renewal of the trains/track/etc blah blah.
Dont bother is all I can say.
Due to Network Rail re-”doing” a major junction at Earlswood, the railway line between Redhill and Gatwick Airport will be closed from the end of service on Christmas Eve until approximately 0400 on Friday 29 December. So the line is closed for 5 days.
Quote from Network Rail “As five consecutive days are required, it is not possible to confine the work to weekends. The dates of this closure have been carefully selected to minimise disruption, since the period between Christmas and the New Year is less busy than on any other weekday in the year. This also means that the work can be carried out on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day, days on which no services would normally run.”
People are advised to allow an extra 90 mins on top of their 2 hour check in times, for the replacement bus service to make an appearence and get you to your airport or from the airport.
Yeah its Late news I know but the poster tubes which were being delivered today by UPS at the Station are saying both the signallers strikes are being called off.
Damn I was so looking forward to a day off doing Customer Service.
Good old Bob Crow has decided to get all of his lovely signalers to go on strike over some pay talks which have broken down.
Well it seems its a threat again. But maybe this time it will go ahead and we can all get a day off.
Personally I dont want to work when Network Rails managers are working the signals *shudders*. I wonder could I refuse to work on Safety Grounds (i.e. that NR managers are only good behind desks earning stupid amounts of money and paying themselves even more stupid bonuses)? Interesting thought.
But here is the important information…..
Planned industrial action by some members of the Rail Maritime and Transport Union has been announced, commencing at 12 noon on Friday 21 July 2006 until 11.59am on Saturday 22 July 2006 and also between 12 noon on Thursday 27 July 2006 and 11.59am on Saturday 29 July 2006.
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