Need some help from those in the know - cotswolds easements next six weeks....

[whole diary]

[devon_metro]

Jobsworth for doing the job correctly :?

Good luck. Hope you don't meet a jobsworth.

I'm probably going to be in the car for most of the next couple of weeks, sharing with a colleague who drives from Chipping Norton. The time penalty, even on the non-stop buses to Oxford, is just too a bit too much.

I would imagine if I complained about an excess for a jobsworth moment -= i.e. trying to charge me Newport to Slough because Newport to Bristol wasnt valid (or maybe it is who knows) then under the circumstances - I may get leverage

[Mookiemoo]

More to the point

I had a ticket examiner from charlbury this morning who KNEW a student railcard wasnt valid on FC^▸ (First Class, or Fat Controller, or Football Club, depending on context) (but said - I'd ask if I were you - you dont ask you dont get) who said as far as she was aware al restrictions were off.

This tallied with my RDG^▸ (Rail Delivery Group, or Reading station, depending on context) to NWP TM^▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) tonight who said it was and 2 arriva guards who said no issue

Maybe common sense will hold

[Mookiemoo]

Jobsworth for doing the job correctly :?

Good luck. Hope you don't meet a jobsworth.

I'm probably going to be in the car for most of the next couple of weeks, sharing with a colleague who drives from Chipping Norton. The time penalty, even on the non-stop buses to Oxford, is just too a bit too much.

I would imagine if I complained about an excess for a jobsworth moment -= i.e. trying to charge me Newport to Slough because Newport to Bristol wasnt valid (or maybe it is who knows) then under the circumstances - I may get leverage

I f you remember my post on the incident!


YES he was technically correct but in odds with 90% of other TMs^▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) - especially when the  passenger was clearly not trying to avoid paying!  In 5 years he is the only one to do that - and apart from my season at WOS^» (Worcester Shrub Hill - next trains) or a slough/pad return I have never NOT bought a ticket on a train - manned station or not regardless of TOC^▸ (Train Operating Company).  I got excessed on a SWT^▸ (South West Trains) but only because I COULD NOT find the guard - and I looked

[willc]

I have absolutely no problem with staff doing their job properly when faced with the kind of people on my train yesterday that I describe in a post on the Cotswold Line Redoubling thread, who I was sure in my own mind had decided to chance travelling
without a ticket - or apparently any means to pay for one - and try to bluff it out if caught but that is clearly not Fallen angel's intention - after all, how many other people can there be who hold a season ticket between Worcester and the Thames Valley but live as near to Ludlow as Worcester?