Travelled from Redland to Portsmouth yesterday, intending to break my journey at Portsmouth & Southsea for a job interview, then continue onto Portsmouth Harbour to meet a friend for coffee.
Of course, in true
Brucey style, I purchased four tickets for my journey (which must have annoyed the guard on the train).
The final ticket was issued to PORTSMOUTH STNS when I asked for Portsmouth Harbour. Guard insisted this was the only one available. Checked on
NFM▸ since and this is true.
Got to Portsmouth & Southsea, ticket barrier gobbled up my ticket even though it is still valid for a journey to PMH within the same day. Spoke to the man there and he basically said there wasn't anything he could do now and I should have asked to be let through the barriers. So basically, he admitted their ticket barrier had retained a ticket which was perfectly valid for another journey. Didn't have time to argue as I had to get to the interview.
Returned later to make the rest of my journey and they [
SWT▸ ] want ^1.70 for what can't be more than a 2 minutes journey, which I held a valid ticket for. Refused to pay (out of principle) and made the journey on foot.
Does anyone know the purpose of grouping these two stations together and is there any way of getting a ticket that is actually issued to PMH?