On 14/05/2012 22:07, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 14/05/2012 18:57, Paul Corfield wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:53:58 +0100, David Cantrell
wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 01:27:45PM +0100, wrote:
I know a driver on one of the tube lines, and he tells me that
employees
of TfL do not receive any sort of discounts when using NR -- not even
annual one-off tickets.
Are you sure about that? I know they used to, and my parents (my dad's
a BR pensioner) get cheap tube tickets. Perhaps this is just left over
from the days before BR was dismembered and sold off to the worst
bidder.
BR privatisation is the cut off point for whether TfL employees have
privilege facilities or not. Further some TfL employees come from
predecessor organisations who have no historical entitlement to
privilege ticket facilities. It needs to be said that with the sheer
complexity of rail ticketing and advent of cheap advance tickets that
the value of the privilege facility has reduced enormously over the
years.
Do TfL people get FIP travel abroad, like the post-privatisation
National Rail types do (but apparently often don't know about)?
Don't know, but I once met somebody who worked for Network Rail and
joined the organisation before 1997. Besides free rail travel throughout
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, he claimed
that he would be able get free rail travel on the continent, though he
would have to first write to the relevant agency.
Don't know if that privilege included tube and bus, though.