"martin" wrote:

This is probably a rather simple question, but I thought I'd come to
u.t.l to see how many answers you lot could come up with

;-)


My work has booked me on a 5-day training course. It's in Slough, so
I've got the joys of a commute via Paddington to look forward to.

As I usually rely on Oyster PAYG, season tickets are a bit of a
mystery to me. Am I right in thinking that the ticket I'm after is a 7
day Slough to London R1256 at £69.70?

Yes, I'd think so.

One thing I'm not sure about is whether you could actually buy said ticket
at the London end - outboundary Travelcards are kinda intended for people
travelling into London, and I believe they're excluded from the normal rules
whereby a ticket office is supposed to sell any ticket a punter asks for (or
maybe that only applies to outboundary Day Travelcards?).

Anyway if that's an issue it's also easily sidestepped - just buy online,
e.g. from Southern:
http://www.southernrailway.com/ticke...eason-tickets/

Note that you'll need a photocard.

(This does assume that your employer is willing to pay for your travel in
London to get to Paddington - though that'd be a reasonable thing to expect,
unless perhaps you worked next to Paddington station.)


This will presumably also let me use buses and tubes in London without
having done the leg on the train first. Will it likely get eaten by
the ticket barrier in Slough on the last day of its validity?

No - season tickets are valid for unlimited travel, so you could
legitimately travel several times between London and Slough on the final day
of validity. If however it was a Day Travelcard then it might get swallowed
on return to Slough (a holder should be allowed to retain it if they ask,
not least because Slough is served by a London bus route, the 81).