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Booked into the hol inn express thursday night - last time i stayed there I had a season and did as follows:

1. Shuttle bus drops at station, use ticket to go through and out - check in and dump contents of ruck sack
2. Use season to go back through, go to tesco
3. Use season to go back to hotel
4. Next morning, use season to get through station to get shuttle bus back to office

Now as i'm doing this only twice a week, i do not have a season at the moment but will have a return ticket.  What are my chances of doing the above without an officious gate line staff confiscating it thinking ive just arrived off a train.

Yes I know I can walk down to the road and over the bridge I'm just bone idle.

Just say you forgot to get a receipt and ask that you keep it.

Good luck, as apparently the TOCs own our tickets (lucky them, I can think of other things I'd prefer to own)!

CD containing all announcements ever recorded by Phil?

An extra 250 metres by my reckoning, but at least those bone idle legs won't have to climb those nasty old footbridge steps going that way...  :-\

If you've got a copy... ;D

over 1km by the time you've done it 4 times!

but out of pocket to the tune of a peak Slough to wos ticket which I would not be able to get on board as I'd have no ticket to get through the barrier

Take a notebook, a pen, a flask, a sandwich box and claim you wish to collect some turbo numbers.

Simples.

Craven Arms? ;)

And in that case, the alternative is well over the 275 yards that it is at Slough!

Diddums! I suppose you could always book a cab?

They built a housing estate near the rail line, and the main footway to the town centre is over the rail station footbridge!

Are platform tickets still available?

The footbridge at Moreton-in-Marsh is a longstanding right of way, well back into the 19th century - it avoids using a perilously narrow footpath on the bridge taking the Fosse Way over the line at the north end.

This was meant as partially tongue in cheek!  Is it not a bit like Swindon which used to be a cut through for the college?

And yes I know its not a public right of way - nor are many other stations!

I was just pondering the difference between not haveing a season and having one - when just trying to access the platform!

But I will have a valid ticket - I just wont be using it - I'll be changing my mind after entering the station and just leaving by a different exit.  And I am a bona fide traveller - I worked out - I spend about 1.7K a month on train tickets! - 1100 is the season and 600 is random diversions via newport and extra journeys

The fact Slough is barriered would kind of imply it is not a public right of way.

Never said it was!

Having lived just 200 yards from Slough Station I can vouch that BR took car to ensure that the footbridge and the North Exit to Mill Street and Petersfield Ave did not become a public footpath.

There were gates at the boundary of the railway land by the entrance to G. D. Peters which were usually open, but tended to be closed one day a year to enforce the private nature of the land. This I understand is enough to prevent a route becoming a public right of way. Railway Terrace to the Stoke Road bridge was always open with no gates.

When I used to use the station bridge to get to get to school and the town centre I bought a platform ticket.