Change of date!

[tourlink99]

I'm scheduled to travel on the Southbound #91 on Thursday. If the Wednsday # 91 is a few hours late I'd like to catch that instead. I'm using rail sale tickets. Will they let me do that with out charge?

Thanks!!!!

 

[AlanB]

Probably not, but ya never know. It doesn't hurt to ask at the ticket counter.

 

[jccollins]

The ticket agent will definitely say NO, not without turning in that ticket for a credit toward the regular coach fare on Wednesday's train.

However I am willing to bet that if you just boarded Wednesday's train with a ticket for the next day's train and acted like it was a mistake you didn't realize before, the conductor would just lift the ticket and tell you to be more careful next time. That is if the conductor even bothers to look at the date printed on the ticket. Most of the time they don't.

I have used a few rail sale tickets on the wrong dates and the conductor didn't even notice.

 

[Save Our Trains Michigan]

Rail sales are a pain in the butt to change at the ticket office they have so many restrictons such as what day's you can travel etc you can try to exchange them.

 

[Bill Haithcoat]

Hey, try this on for size. This will not speak to your situation today, with computerized reservations, but I have in my possession an old ticket stub for the wrong YEAR.

It is an old pre-Amtrak ticket, way before computerized reservations. It was for a return trip in January,(which had begun in December) don't remember the year, but the agent manually wrote in the year ending in December, for a return in January.

You know how we all have trouble remembering to write in a new year? Anyway this was for a return ticket on, say, Jan. 5, 1964, and the agent wrote in like 1963.

The conductor didn't even notice it (or perhaps he knew it was an innocent mistake and didn't say anyting). In fact I did not even notice it until I got home.