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following situation

• i’m living near olten (egerkingen)
• normally i work in aarau, so i have a subscription for egerkingen – aarau
• sometimes i have to visit clients around zurich

now you think: “easy, you’ll just have to buy a ticket from aarau to zurich”… but that isnt the case:
if the train stops in aarau (and its enough if it just stops, no need to change the train or something), you may buy a ticket aarau – zurich and won’t have any problem. but if the train goes directly from olten to zurich, without stop in aarau, you have to buy a ticket olten – zurich, or you’ll have to pay a monetary fine (CHF 80.-)…as if you would not have any ticket at all!

but…. what is the difference for sbb?