In message , at 11:48:25 on
Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Paul Corfield remarked:

student Oyster

On weekly or period Travelcards or the Bus & Tram Pass.
....

The railcard discounts off peak PAYG fares, gives a discounted daily
cap or allows the holder to buy a discounted One Day Travelcard. There
is *no* discount on weekly or period Travelcards.

There's a certain symmetry/lack of overlap there. Two fees for the
issuing authorities rubs hands with glee.

But at least the situation is now clear, many thanks for your help.

Card-bloat is getting significant.

I don't get exercised by this.

I do. A quick count reveals I've got almost 50 current cards. Not
including PAYG phone top-up cards, but it does include one library card
from a town I left a couple of months ago.

And they still snarl at me in shops whenever I say I haven't got a
Nectar card, because I've already got "too many". Indeed, one could add
numerous retail cards to the pack without trying very hard - I've only
got Tesco and CoOp cards, my wife has a Boots card (and probably a Costa
card) and we used to have several discount cards from stores like
Staples and B&Q, and shop regularly at Iceland which has a card.

obRail: Not sure I can count my Bite card, as they've apparently been
obsoleted in the original form.
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Roland Perry