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Old November 4th 10, 04:12 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Mizter T Mizter T is offline
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Default Travelcard on HS1


"Graham Harrison" :

"Mizter T" wrote:

"Graham Harrison" wrote:

How do you work out what the supplement is to travel on HS1? I will
have a Maidenhead to all zones Travelcard with a senior discount and I
though I might use HS1 from St P to Stratford International (then the
bus out) just for the fun of it and only one way.


I don't think that either an inboundary Travelcard, or an outboundary
Travelcard that's from a station for which HS1 would not be a valid route
into London, has any validity on the Southeastern Highspeed services
whatsoever (and there isn't a supplement which confers magic powers on it
to make it valid).

So basically you'd need to buy a ticket (£5 single, £3.30 single
w/Railcard discount).

[snip]


Well....

This page

http://www.southeasternrailway.co.uk...speed-tickets/

says

If you have a ticket to London Terminals, an outboundary** Travelcard
ticket or you hold a Season ticket, you can upgrade to high speed services
by paying a supplement in addition to your current ticket.

But I can't see where it says what the supplement will be (although given
the fares you menation it's not going to be a fortune!). Mind you,
here's a thought, I'll bet the reference to outboundary Travelcards refers
to inbound journeys from "SET land" not people like me coming from
somewhere else outside London and wanting just to ride to Stratford. I
think I feel an e-mail to SET coming on!


Yes, that's exactly what I was trying to get at with my reference to "an
outboundary Travelcard that's from a station for which HS1 would not be a
valid route into London" - i.e. somewhere other than 'SET land' (e.g.
Maidenhead!).