CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
When cycling to the station and discovering when you get there that you've left your wallet behind, try to do so on a day when it isn't p*ssing down.
Top tip for cycle/train commuters
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TwickenhamCyclist
Guest
Since privatisation the rail service has been dedicated to providing an excellent service to all its customers... I'm sure as a regular and valued customer the staff at the station and the ticket inspectors took a very understanding view of your predicament and bent over backwards to ensure you could still take the train to work and suggested some sort of way for you to identify yourself and allow you to pay for your ticket the next morning...
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CopperBrompton
Bicycle: a means of transport between cake-stops
- Location
- London
You can indeed do that, but as I needed my wallet for other things, I went back for it
A couple of months ago I thought I'd done something similar and spent a couple of minutes in front of the ticket machine going through my wallet trying to find my card. Just before I found it, a guy behind me offered to pay and lend me the cash 
. Funny thing was he'd cut me up badly a couple of weeks before that when turning right off the main road onto the approach road and I'd done the usual glare as I cycled past him parking. So he turned out to be a decent guy, just had a moment of madness / misjudgement one morning.
Should have taken his money and run
. Funny thing was he'd cut me up badly a couple of weeks before that when turning right off the main road onto the approach road and I'd done the usual glare as I cycled past him parking. So he turned out to be a decent guy, just had a moment of madness / misjudgement one morning.Should have taken his money and run
annedonnelly
Girl from the North Country
- Location
- Canonbie
Our station is unmanned and has no ticket machines. If you can't pay for your ticket when you get on they take your details and give you a week or so to pay with no extra charge - or if the conductor's in a particularly good mood he might let you travel for free.
TwickenhamCyclist
Guest
Great - round here they get you on the technicalities - like not having the outbound ticket still in your possession on the return journey... or traveling back with 4 people on a ticket you originally purchased for five (for no financial gain) when the fifth person couldn't travel with you (and purchased a separate ticket for their return at a later date)... or when you go up to the inspector with cash and ask nicely to pay for the extra stop you took and are told your a criminal and that's a £40 fine... or when the ticket machine doesn't work and the ticket office is closed so you try and pay on the train... or when the first train you wait for is delayed so you miss the main one you are booked a seat on through no fault of your own... or when the information telephone line says you can take a certain route but the inspector disagrees... (and when I was younger, refuse to believe you're a child and illegally detain you and have you arrested for traveling on a child ticket)... and let's not forget making it impossible to get a refund on an oyster card when they charge you twice/three times/let you through the barrier when the service is suspended...
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
You mean you guys have to pay for your rail travel? How quaint!
TwickenhamCyclist
Guest
police? Free national or just local?
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Varies from force to force and rail company to rail company, but most get off peak and/or 2nd travel for free. From the local rail firms I qualify for everything except posh git class.
jonny jeez
Legendary Member
- Location
- Chislehurst, Kent, UK
Top tip...thanks
