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Old September 10th 09, 12:11 PM posted to uk.transport.london
John B John B is offline
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Default Senior railcard discount - or not? - on Anytime travelcard

On Sep 10, 12:51*am, wrote:
The standard FCC ruse at Cambridge for those who want to return within
the evening peak is the buy an Off-Peak Day Return or Day Travelcard
from Ely which is cheaper than the anytime version. Cambridge are
happy to sell tickets from Ely, seeing as it's NXEA and not FCC
selling them.


Interesting - thanks for that, that's one to remember. For those not
clued up on these things (and I had to check!), FCC created the
concept of "zones A to E" so as to apply their off-peak evening
restrictions - Ely is in zone E whilst Cambridge is in zone D - and
yes, return journeys to zone E are exempt from the restrictions,
whilst zone D isn't.


It's not clear to me that FCC themselves would sell Ely tickets.


They're legally obliged to, if you ask for one.

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