London Banter - View Single Post - Cheaper 'Advance' tickets on the Stansted Express

[email protected] · December 13th 13, 03:41 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 20:46:03 on Thu, 12 Dec
2013, Mizter T remarked:
https://www.stanstedexpress.com/offers/advance-fares

These are a bit different from regular Advance fares elsewhere on the
railway in these respects...

* They allow travel on *any* Stansted Express service on the specified
date (i.e. you are not restricted to travel on a particular train at a
specified time).

* They must be purchased 7 days before travel.

* They are not quota limited (at least there's no suggestion they are).

* No Railcard discounts.

* They're issued as either an "e-ticket" (aka print at home) or an
"m-ticket" (in this instance, as a simple SMS/text message) [2].

* Whilst this isn't explicitly spelt out anywhere I can see, it seems
they're only available from the Stansted Express website.

Even if they don't get many points for their trains (including the
Stansted Express which is painfully slow, although they are quite new
and clean) Greater Anglia have introduced quite a lot of ticketing
innovations. Far more than any other TOC I can think of.

Indeed. They have revolutionised my arrangements for business trips to
London.

--
Colin Rosenstiel