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Alternatively, if you do feel anxious jumping the train, make your way to Hove station. The barriers are open from around 8pm. Around 8.30 or 9pm you can(REALLY EASILY, esp @9pm) find day travelcards that people threw away between Hove and London zones 1-6 in the SMALL bins around the station. There is a bin just next to the barriers and some others around. This covers the trip from Hove to London and transport within all of London on the underground. It will get you through underground barriers and on buses until about 4 or 5 in the morning. So if you leave around 9pm you should get to london around 10 or 11pm.
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The train route between London and Brighton is very rarely checked. It is even more rare that it is checked after 9pm at night. There are 2 companies which do this route. First Capital Connect(FCC) and Southern. Southern is checked more, FCC very rarely. Theoretically you don't need to have a ticket if you travel after 9pm any day.
This info is out of date, in last year they've been checking ticket a lot more on both Southern and First Capital connect... You can take a train from Preston Park(no barriers, one station after Brighton station, walkable from the center, takes 25/30 minutes) that stops at either Elephant and Castle(no barriers, south London) or Blackfriars(barriers open in the evening, a bit more central than Elephant) or Farringdon(this HAS barriers but from here you can change between national rail and underground and try to get to another station without barriers in other parts of London. One such station is Finsbury Park. There is a lot stuff to know about free transport in London, best bet is to ask your local squatter.)
Hitching is still a great way to travel in this country, but hitching into central London is a pain and quite expensive depending on where you get dropped off.
