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David Jackman[_2_] · **Railcard changes w.e.f. 17/05/09**

Mizter T wrote in news:c1188ad2-9a98-4749-be12-
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You don't get any more for your money if you buy one from LU, though
you used to - until recently LU would issued Railcard-discounted
Travelcards for zones 1-D, that is z1-6 plus zones A-D which
encompassed the extremities of the Metropolitan line (zones A-D were
effectively thrown in 'for free').

However zones A-D have since been incorporated into zones 7-9, which
were introduced at the same time as London Overground took over from
Silverlink Metro (on the Watford-Euston DC line Carpenders Park,
Bushey and Watford High Street are now within zones 7 and 8). At
around the same time LU ticket offices started issuing two separate
Railcard-discounted Day Travelcards - the standard one for zones 1-6,
and a slightly more expensive one for zones 1-9.

I think this began when a railcard discounted travelcard was subject to a
"minimum fare" and so you didn't get the full third off.

As a third off a 1-D travelcard was less than the minimum fare LU ticket
offices issued them rather than 1-6 which would have been the same,
minimum, price.

At some point, as the price of the all zone travelcard increased but the
minimum fare didn't, a third off a 1-D was more than the minimum fare so LU
started to issue both discounted 1-D and 1-6, at different prices.

David