Author: Peter MassonPeter Masson Date: Jan 4, 2007 07:35
"Mizter T" gmail.com> wrote>
> I note your overall point. However in the example Bill gave, at the
> time commuters would have had to buy a British Rail season ticket from
> a BR ticket office, and buy a totally seperate Underground season
> ticket from an Underground ticket office, there is thus a bit of a
> disconnect.
>
> How often people would have asked at a BR ticket office for a through
> season ticket to Bank Underground station I don't know, but I guess it
> may not have been that many, as intermodal ticketing simply wasn't on
> the agenda at the time and commuters would, by and large, have been
> aware of that.
>
On the contrary, through BR/LU season tickets have been available AIUI at
least since BR was nationalised. My father held a Chislehurst to South
Kensington (via Cannon Street or Charing Cross) season in the early 1950s,
and I held a Chislehurst to Reading General Priv Season, including travel on
the Bakerloo Line between Trafalgar Square and Paddington, in 1967. However,
in general if you travelled on ordinary tickets you had to rebook on the ...
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