Originally Posted by
Guy Betsy
You must also have your date written in BEFORE you board the train.. or at least when you're already in your seat. Trying to avoid getting checked or simply saying you 'forgot' means that you're trying to travel without a valid ticket / pass and you could be liable to a fine.
If you've entered a wrong date down, you cannot simply cross it out and put in a new date. It is voided, which means you LOST that day and you must put in a new date in a new box.
I'd be "rich" today if I had $1 for everyone who did NOT place the date on a flex. EP
--in every instance (that I've witnessed), the conductor admonished them for their laxity and wrote in the date. [The
official rules are somewhat Draconian = fines.]
(1) A long time ago, I was using a full 21 day EP, and the station agent who wrote in the start and end dates, short changed me out of a day (
inclusive counts are tricky with non monthly type passes) so he just corrected his error by correcting the end date by writing over it. I expected to run into trouble (due to the correction) and for 21 days of travel NOT once did a conductor say anything.
(2) In Switzerland, I was validating a Swiss Pass shortly before the end of the year, the agent wrote the
current year as part of the end date--it should have been the
next year, again (after I pointed out his error) he corrected the error by writing the correct year over the incorrect one--again I experienced NO problems.
Conductors and other rail people, realize that pax (and others) do make errors and are fairly forgiving, especially when
tourists are involved.