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David Cantrell · March 9th 11, 11:04 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 12:56:51PM -0600, wrote:
In article ,
(David Cantrell) wrote:
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 05:04:58PM -0800, Mizter T wrote:
However I find it hard to imagine that
different TOCs pay different amounts into the 'Travelcard pot' - i.e.
I reckon an outboundary Day Travelcard from Brighton, Cambridge,
Reading, Southend and Winchester all result in an identical payment
into the 'Travelcard pot' for the Travelcard element of the ticket.
I'd not be at all surprised to find they were different. Southern, for
example, will sell a HUGE number of them, whereas Scotrail will sell
very few (they will sell some though - IIRC you can buy a sleeper ticket
plus travelcard, but by default you get a sleeper + a single zone 1/2
tube ticket). I would therefore expect them to contribute different
proportions of the revenue because their costs per ticket in doing so
are radically different.
Why mention Scotrail? The examples were all near to London for starters.

Scotrail run services into London and (IIRC) sell Travelcards.
Therefore they are a useful edge-case to consider when thinking about
how much goes into the "Travelcard pot".

However, if you want a definitive answer, I suggest you ask
ATOC/TfL/whoever.

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