Mark B wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
[crossposted to uk.transport.london]
[original thread on uk.railway]


News_Demon (removespam) wrote:

When purchasing tickets with a credit card from the machines at London
Paddington is possible to purchase 2 tickets in the same transaction?

There is almost cetainly a muiltple ticket option if you're buying more
than one ticket for the same journey - i.e. once you've specified the
journey and ticket type you can buy x number of adult and x number of
child tickets.

AFAIA no public transport ticket machines allow you to have a virtual
basked and buy multiple tickets for different journeys in one
transaction.

I ask AFAIK at a LU machine you can only buy 1 ticket and can only use your
card ONCE in a 24 hour period.

LU ticket machines allow you to buy several tickets for the same
journey as described above. I'm not sure about whether the "one
purchase using a credit/debit card on the LU network" rule still
applies - perhaps it is a bit more forgiving now that LU ticket
machines are all equipped with a chip and pin pad, which reduces the
risk that the user of the card is not the real cardholder.

The wise sages of uk.transport.london may know the facts...

No its fine - bought two tickets on my Switchcard last month - A single
each way as plans fell through

One thing that's always useful bearing in mind is that Saver Returns
cost a pound than Saver Singles (I think this is universal across all
TOCs) - I pretty much always buy a return even if I don't need it just
in case.

As far as I can see a similar rule seems to apply for Cheap Day Returns
- i.e. a CDR costs little more (like 10p more) than a standard single
(or cheap day single if they're available on that route) - though for
shorter journeys the price difference between single and CDR appears to
be greater (at least in the south-east).

Anyway the point being that if you're buying walk-on tickets it might
be worth checking how much more expensive a return is - even if you're
only after a single - just in case plans change.