Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If I have a ticket from say Stansted to eg dalston Junction can I use it to travel to another nearby station like Hackney downs instead?
Quick railway ticket question
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
may depend on the sort of ticket and the exact combination of stations involved.
some 'advance' tickets are very specific, and (for example) a liverpool street to stanstead ticket would not be valid if you tried to get on at tottenham hale, similarly if the ticket is valid on only one train operator's services, and you want to make a similar (or even the same) journey on another train operator's services, then it's not valid.
a standard single / return is usually valid for getting on or off part way through the journey it's for.
but travel to a 'nearby' station on another line is questionable. there are some journeys where a ticket that says it's to A is also valid to B, but it's complicated. the national fares manual is public domain but meh.
if you have a specific in mind, then you could always go to a staffed ticket office and ask.
alternatively, there is a fares advice section on rail uk forums, but they will want specific origin / destination of ticket and proposed journey, and if you've already got the ticket, what sort of ticket and so on.
stanstead does not appear to be do-able on oyster or contactless (a few places outside london are now - some only do contactless not oyster.)
some 'advance' tickets are very specific, and (for example) a liverpool street to stanstead ticket would not be valid if you tried to get on at tottenham hale, similarly if the ticket is valid on only one train operator's services, and you want to make a similar (or even the same) journey on another train operator's services, then it's not valid.
a standard single / return is usually valid for getting on or off part way through the journey it's for.
but travel to a 'nearby' station on another line is questionable. there are some journeys where a ticket that says it's to A is also valid to B, but it's complicated. the national fares manual is public domain but meh.
if you have a specific in mind, then you could always go to a staffed ticket office and ask.
alternatively, there is a fares advice section on rail uk forums, but they will want specific origin / destination of ticket and proposed journey, and if you've already got the ticket, what sort of ticket and so on.
stanstead does not appear to be do-able on oyster or contactless (a few places outside london are now - some only do contactless not oyster.)
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If I use my ticket to take me to Tottenham hale then tap the platform oyster reader do you think I'd then be able to tap out at the station I want to go to?
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
if your ticket from stanstead is valid to tottenham hale, then i would have thought so
although - is the platform oyster reader at tottenham hale a yellow one (that you can start or end a journey on) or a pink one (to prove you've changed trains there rather than going via zone 1)? i don't think you can start a journey on a pink oyster reader.
at some stations if you want to change from paper ticket (from somewhere outside london) to oyster / contactless, you have to go out through the barriers with the paper ticket then back in with oyster / contactless. i think i have used tottenham hale station, but only from / to the underground, so not sure what they have got there or what the station layout is.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Thank you! Never noticed the colour of readers before, hope I've time at Stansted to ask the staff
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
on further hunting, this says there isn't a pink oyster reader at tottenham hale, so looks like that's not an issue.
so if there is an oyster reader on the platform, you should be fine.
if there isn't, then you'll need to go out the barriers with your paper ticket, then in again with oyster. i haven't tried it, but if you approach the barrier from inside the station, touch your oyster card, then go back to the platform rather than out through the barriers, i think that might confuse the system, and assume that you failed to touch in when you started your journey (and then charge you a maximum fare) and then will do the same again when you touch out wherever you're going.
so if there is an oyster reader on the platform, you should be fine.
if there isn't, then you'll need to go out the barriers with your paper ticket, then in again with oyster. i haven't tried it, but if you approach the barrier from inside the station, touch your oyster card, then go back to the platform rather than out through the barriers, i think that might confuse the system, and assume that you failed to touch in when you started your journey (and then charge you a maximum fare) and then will do the same again when you touch out wherever you're going.
