Anyone know anything about train tickets?

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I'm travelling with friends by train next week. I booked the tickets and collected them (from a machine). We are all travelling to the same place but getting on at different stations, I live the furthest away, two will join me on the same train a couple of stations down the track and the 4th will get on at the station where the first 3 of us need to change trains.

It was cheaper for me to book all 4 passengers from my station . Anyway, I'm meeting up tomorrow to hand over the tickets as the last person will be getting on at a station with a ticket barrier in place to access the platforms.

All 4 tickets have come as a whole ticket from my station to the destination rather than in the individual parts of the journey.

Will passenger 4 be able to use a ticket that theoretically originates from my station to get through the barriers to get on the second train? It is a valid ticket and obvs once on the train then the ticket collector will have no idea (or care) where she got on.

There's normally a time on the ticket which it's valid from, so no she couldn't have travelled in on an earlier train.

The only times given are those on the Mandatory reservation coupon which give the trains from Haymarket onwards. No time is given for the first journey.

Advance tickets can be very strict, but looking at your stations I suspect your reservations are for the Virgin part of the journey? If so, all the boarding stations would be classed as connections, which don't have restrictions (in my experience).

If you were boarding a train at a different station to those named on the advance portion of the ticket, you could be fined. But if your advance tickets start from Haymarket, it should be fine boarding there or at stations for Scotrail connecting services.

scooby, I think you are right. The reservation section is very specific and that's fine as it starts at Haymarket (and ends there on the way back) but it doesn't detail anything about the Scotrail part other than giving the starting point as BofA on the main ticket.

I'm very unsure about this but is it a group save ticket? If so I think you all have to travel the whole journey together.

It's not a group save ticket, 4 individual advance tickets. No group discount.