21.00 Curfew

[Vicar!]

Just a reminder those enjoying the fine taverns of Brighton post match. Your return rail/match ticket is only valid for travel up until 21.00. This was being stricrtly enforced last night by a 'gang' of no less than six ticket inspectors at Brighton who seemed to be gagging for a fight with anyone wearing a blue and white scarf. A**eholes.

 

[swindonseagull]

If thats the rules, then they can enforce them, Dont see why they are a'''holes.. just doing their job.

 

[Questions]

Just a reminder those enjoying the fine taverns of Brighton post match. Your return rail/match ticket is only valid for travel up until 21.00. This was being stricrtly enforced last night by a 'gang' of no less than six ticket inspectors at Brighton who seemed to be gagging for a fight with anyone wearing a blue and white scarf. A**eholes.

I cannot for the life of me see why it matters what time you decide to head home on your travel pass. Is it even legal to enforce it ? Surely it should be valid until the last train of the day or as is the norm with rail travel just the last train. I used my season ticket to travel to Brighton at 8.45 am yesterday and was half expecting a row.

 

[Questions]

If thats the rules, then they can enforce them, Dont see why they are a'''holes.. just doing their job.

I think he means the train company as a whole.

 

[D Block blue]

From the club website......

Trains
Falmer Station is adjacent to the Amex Stadium North
concourse and it is just a couple of minutes’ walk from
the platform to the stadium. Between 11.30am and 9pm
for a 3pm kick-off or between 4.15pm and midnight for a
7.45pm kick-off, the cost of your travel on any train service
travelling within the red subsidised zone (right), is included
in your home league match day ticket.

 

[Dunk]

I fell out with a bus driver over this. 'Free match-day travel' is at best misleading. I complained to the club but they just said 9.00 was plenty of time to get home.

It's a shame as it prevents people from going out and spending money in town. Not very community minded if you ask me.

 

[Mr Banana]

Joy thieves

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

I don't think it will prevent people from drinking in town after a match. Surely we are talking a maximum £5 single travel to get home inside the travel area.

 

[pauli cee]

Yep, I was one of those caught out at ten past nine.
Never had any grief before, the travel subsidy isn't really worth a great deal to me anymore if this is the case...

 

[Ernest]

What's the problem ? The conditions are clearly stated, it's for travel to and from the game not for a night on the ale

 

[Wellesley]

What's the problem ? The conditions are clearly stated, it's for travel to and from the game not for a night on the ale

I think you've answered your own question.

 

[backson]

How will it prevent or even discourage people from going into Brighton? It's £3.60 Brighton to Shoreham, which is the edge of the zone, if you're going home after 9 for a 3pm kick off, I'd suggest you've spent that several times over.

I guess it's down to whether you see it as a right to free travel all day around Brighton, just because you've bought a ticket, or just the easiest workable solution to getting large numbers of people to and from the ground without having to check every single person.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

I had a couple of run ins at Withdean on the rare occasions I had to get a bus going from Churchill Sq to meet people at Hove Station before getting a cab up but in their view going AWAY from the ground and therefore an invalid trip. After a short debate they relented

 

[Vicar!]

If thats the rules, then they can enforce them, Dont see why they are a'''holes.. just doing their job.

Its easily resolved by putting a clear notice if its become a problem, rather than taking a confrontation approach.

 

[Paris]

Barber out!

 

[Questions]

What's the problem ? The conditions are clearly stated, it's for travel to and from the game not for a night on the ale

You would say that. You're a train company apologist.
You should travel when you want on the day. Jobsworth !

 

[pastafarian]

i can only presume the train company has only just realised what it is supposed to be enforcing.

i cant be the only one who has turned up in Brighton at 10 am for some breakfast prior to beer well before the 1130 start time,and not encountered a single problem.

They are not the brightest sparks after all.

 

[wellquickwoody]

The train companies are perfectly within their rights to enforce these rules END.

That said, if they do, it is a very small minded action.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I knew there was a starting time but not a finishing time. The start times were printed on the paper tickets. Several times we travelled back after 9pm especially at Withdean when having a few drinks & games of pool with friends.
Since we moved to the Amex we don't stay so late anyway. Has it been changed since we moved or has it always been 9pm?

 

[The Large One]

What's the problem ? The conditions are clearly stated, it's for travel to and from the game not for a night on the ale

I don't think the problem is with the hours, it's with the mock-hard faux-bouncers that Southern likes to employ.