Re: First Capital Connect strike ...

"Paul Oter" <paul.oter@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> On Nov 14, 1:50 am, "David A Stocks" <nos...@nopam.com> wrote:
>> "CJB" <chrisjbr...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> > I understand that the dispute about Southern accepting FCC tickets has
>> > been going on for quite a while.
>>
>> There's no "dispute". If your ticket says "FCC ONLY" on it
you can only
>> use
>> it on FCC's services. The moral of the story is don't travel or spend
>> money
>> on FCC unless you absolutely have to (which you didn't).
>>
>
> I'm curious to hear these tales of FCC-only tickets on the Thameslink
> route not being valid on other services when FCC services are
> cancelled.

> This contrasts with the Great Northern route. Whenever there's a
> problem on that line, FCC routinely announce that tickets will be
> accepted by NXEA (e.g. for those travelling from London to Hertford or
> to Cambridge) or LUL (for those travelling to north London). This
> happened last Sunday, when there were no FCC trains on the GN route,
> but it has happened numerous times before.

> Why the difference?

It could be as simple as FCC not having staff at stations south of the
river. I assume that north of the river someone can just 'phone up the other
operator(s) and ask "will you accept our tickets". South of the river that
someone doesn't exist, so it doesn't happen.

D A Stocks
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John Clausen (16.11.2009 15:53)