Re: [NSW] CityRail ticketing query.

[alberta@zip.com.au (Albert Alcoceba)]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 02:13:48 +1000, me Myself and I <kink@ihug.com.au>
wrote:

>If you but a ticket, for argument sake, say from penrith to central.
>
>Just say you want to get out at Strathfield. The Ticket machine takes
>your ticket.
>
>Thsi is not right. You have a ticket to Central, you should be allowed
>to get out anywhere you want as long as you end up at central and dont
>travel backwards unless you have a return.
>
>If you get on a train get off to resume your journey, you are not adding
>extra cost to the rail network, so why should they add extra cost to us?

It has always been the rule (long before CityRail came to existence)
that you cannot break your journey on a suburban trip.

But analysing the reasons... it would be impossible to actually check
if you *were* indeed travelling backwards on a single ticket,
remembering that most CityRail stations are not gated.


Albert Alcoceba
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