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Schneelocke:

--- Quote from: owolf on 25.01.2007, 01:09:56 ---This thread turned into a discussion about German and British railway ticket pricing in general, which is indeed off-topic here and better taken to some railway forum.

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Even if that was true (which it is not), you shouldn't be too anal about it. Everything that was posted here quite clearly and obviously IS on-topic and EF-related, and any heavy-handedness from the staffers/forum admins/mods is not only unnecessary but in fact counterproductive. You do want to foster a relaxed atmosphere, after all, don't you? At least, I can't imagine that you'd prefer a board where everything's paranoid about what they're saying all the time for fear that it might be construed as "off-topic". :P

Wawik:

--- Quote from: Tungro on 25.01.2007, 01:30:31 ---I do have a question. When I was at Nürnberg, from the Flughafen to the Hbf we had a Nürnberg local type ticket. For longer journeys, does the validating procedure still apply? If so, where should it be done? At the origin station, on the first train, on all trains, or at the destination station?

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Oh, that's because you undertook the journey from the airport to the station by local transport. National rail tickets are never stamped at ticket barriers, they're always cancelled on the train. And FWIW, the whole "Punch your pass before boarding" spiel is slowly being phased out anyways.... if you buy a local ticket from the ticket machine, it usually comes with time and date of purchase printed on it and is valid right away, unless it's something like a five-journey or similar one (makes sense not to cancel these right away), but that depends on whatever city one is in. I believe Nuremberg pre-cancels all singles since 2005 or so. Which means the whole lot of those "Buy ticket there, stamp ticket here" pictures I did for the EF11 and EF12 web site were moot to begin with.  ::)

Cheetah:

--- Quote from: Schneelocke on 25.01.2007, 02:09:18 ---At least, I can't imagine that you'd prefer a board where everything's paranoid about what they're saying all the time for fear that it might be construed as "off-topic". :P

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I'm fine with pretty much anything in the "Community" section, but I take the liberty of being anal about the "Eurofurence Information" section :) Which is why I'm going to split threads from time to time when they go from informational to discussional.

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