Keeping tickets for expenses claims etc

[hairyhandedfool]

That would do for me. So, where are these receipts issued?

Ask for a printed receipt when you buy your ticket(s).

Oh right, I know Tribute only shows the first ticket with limited other information... sorry.

To be fair, I can only say for Fastis receipts, other systems may be different.

 

[stut]

Ask for a printed receipt when you buy your ticket(s).

To be fair, I can only say for Fastis receipts, other systems may be different.

Ah. Which TOCs use Fastis? And can you get one from a ticket machine?

(So, from a mostly-unmanned FCC station, is it going to be any use to me?)

 

[hairyhandedfool]

I don't know what FCC use (Thameslink went to Shere Smart when they changed from APTIS, which didn't have an tally roll printer at the time (receipts were printed on ticket stock), but they might have changed since I was in that neck of the woods last).

 

[transportphoto]

AFAIK most, if not all FCC managed Great Northern stations use Tribute. NX use Tribute at all stations (with a couple of exceptions).

 

[David Goddard]

I find ticket gates a pain in most situations, partly as they hold people up and secondly as they retain tickets for completed journeys. For various reasons, I like to keep tickets for my train journeys. They form part of my records of where I have been, when I went and how much I paid. A receipt does not tell such a story. After a number of reasonable requests that generated rude responses from RPIs, I often now end up buying a ticket for greater distance than that I am travelling, purely so that the ticket gate gives my ticket back to me as it thinks I am continuing my journey later.
I am in favour of getting rid of all of these wretched gates and putting ticket inspectors back on the trains.

 

[W-on-Sea]

Never had a request to keep a ticket refused, and wouldn't allow a ticket-line attendant taking it from me if I needed it for that reason. I can't think of any earthy reason why they should refuse.

 

[Urban Gateline]

Precisely what W-On-Sea says, I am more than happy to let someone keep their ticket and will let them out the ticket barriers so long as the ticket they hold is valid! I understand that companies need the ticket as proof for expense payments so it's fair enough if someone needs to keep their ticket.

 

[bb21]

Precisely what W-On-Sea says, I am more than happy to let someone keep their ticket and will let them out the ticket barriers so long as the ticket they hold is valid! I understand that companies need the ticket as proof for expense payments so it's fair enough if someone needs to keep their ticket.

That would be a sensible thing to do. If someone is really paranoid about fraud if passengers keep their tickets, then they could always do what one LM gateline staff did which I witnessed a few months back at Euston, ie. write on the ticket with permanent markers, "used all".

 

[codenamecuebal]

I don't care if tickets remain property of the railway. I have paid enough money for it, I will keep it if I want. Just like the several hundred tickets I have in my draw in front of me, I will keep them and there is nothing anyone can do to stop me.

Same, I'd like to see them take me to court over the ~250 tickets I have from the past 2 years
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If you have it in a ticket wallet, chances are it won't get taken. I just walk through the manual gate and wave it at the guy. However, I had one ticket man at GLQ low level stop me, take my wallet off me, pull my ticket out, and hand me it back.

 

[button_boxer]

However, I had one ticket man at GLQ low level stop me, take my wallet off me, pull my ticket out, and hand me it back.

With the quality of some colour photocopiers these days maybe he'd been told to touch all tickets to make sure they're printed on genuine stock?

 

[codenamecuebal]

With the quality of some colour photocopiers these days maybe he'd been told to touch all tickets to make sure they're printed on genuine stock?

you never know

 

[Flamingo]

With the quality of some colour photocopiers these days maybe he'd been told to touch all tickets to make sure they're printed on genuine stock?

To do a "full" check we have to (and have the right to) handle the ticket, be it a season in a wallet or any other one.

People refusing to hand them over come in for a LOT of scrutiny.

 

[AlterEgo]

To do a "full" check we have to (and have the right to) handle the ticket, be it a season in a wallet or any other one.

People refusing to hand them over come in for a LOT of scrutiny.

Quite. There was a chap who got done last year (I think?) for having a forged season ticket. Well over ten grand's worth of crime there.

 

[Flamingo]

I've known a few cases where forged season tickets were found. One was an annual ticket that had been bought by work, and cashed in for a refund a few days later.

That resulted in court, and being fired!