Season Ticket Stock

Fourbee

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Season Ticket Stock

« on: November 06, 2013, 15:59:02 »

Are all season tickets now issued on orange ticket stock?

I may be showing my age now, but didn't there used to be green for weekly, grey for monthly+ and the special gold card design for NSE^▸ ?


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Brucey

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Re: Season Ticket Stock

« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2013, 19:59:16 »

Yes, the different stocks are gradually being replaced with orange stock. The advantage being that nothing is pre-printed on the ticket.

The only exception is Gold Cards in the former NSE^▸ area which still remain on their own stock.

I've noticed Southern and London Midland's websites send blue stock (and pre-printed blue Travelcards) for odd period tickets still, but not monthly.


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Chris from Nailsea

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Re: Season Ticket Stock

« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2013, 20:39:02 »

Going off at a slight tangent here ... Tongue

I was on a train a while ago where a young lady whose first, or indeed second, language was clearly not English was trying to explain very animatedly to the Conductor that she did have a ticket.

He was remarkably patient, spending most of the ten-minute journey between Nailsea & Backwell and Bristol Temple Meads trying to get her to understand that what she was clutching was not actually a valid ticket.

She had one of these:


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Fourbee

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Re: Season Ticket Stock

« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2013, 23:48:55 »

void is a valid return type in some languages... anyway...

I asked at a SWT^▸ ticket office today about application forms for season tickets of 1 month+ (must have it on the brain). Apparently, they (SWT) will ask a few questions and then issue the ticket without the need for paperwork. Does anyone know FGW^▸ 's position on this?


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