"solar penguin" wrote in message
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Hi everyone.

This is probably a very obvious question that's been dealt with dozens of
times already, but Google doesn't seem to be turning anything up.

Currently, if you own a paper point-to-point season ticket, and want to
extend an off-peak return journey beyond its furthest point, you can buy,
from your local station, an off-peak cheap day return for the excess
portion before you start your journey.

For eaxmple, say you had a season ticket between Gipsy Hill and Croydon
because that's where you live and/or work, but you want to visit Sutton
one weekend to do your shopping, because that's less of a dump than
Croydon. You can buy an an off-peak cheap day return from Croydon to
Sutton at the Gipsy Hill ticket office.

What are we supposed to do when off-peak paper tickets in London are
abolished next year?

They haven't said that, they've said offpeak day return (CDR) paper tickets
will not be available for travel within the zones. They haven't said there
will be 'no paper tickets at all'. They'll still be needed to travel outside
London, and I'm expecting when the NR fares changes are published they'll be
selling paper offpeak travelcards in lieu of CDRs. The price is only
marginally higher normally.

Paul S