In article , (Mizter T)
wrote:

wrote:

In article , (Mizter T)
wrote:

The best ticket for 'gricing' is a Day Travelcard.

I asked because I thought that paper Day Travelcards were no longer
available. Hence the need to ask about alternatives.

Eh?! Paper Day Travelcards are most certainly still available -
however since January they have not been available from newsagents
(aka Ticket Stops) - they are still very much available from all
station ticket offices and ticket machines. (For Off-peak Day
Travelcards, Railcard brings down the cost of a z1-6 version to
GBP5.30.)

OK. My confusion then. Presumably to get a railcard discount one needs to
buy from a ticket office?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 18:58:44
on Thu, 30 Jun 2011, remarked:

Presumably to get a railcard discount one needs to buy from a ticket
office?

You can buy online (destination code 0035 for Z1-6) or from a machine,
but you have to carry a valid appropriate railcard with you on the day.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
18:58:44 on Thu, 30 Jun 2011, remarked:

Presumably to get a railcard discount one needs to buy from a ticket
office?

You can buy online (destination code 0035 for Z1-6) or from a
machine, but you have to carry a valid appropriate railcard with
you on the day.

Presumably only online from TfL? Not that I can find any such facility of
the TfL web site. How would one pick it up anyway? I can't see how one
would buy it online from FCC or another TOC. As I'm not on a day trip I
can't buy a Cambridge-London travelcard.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:

In article ,
(Roland Perry) wrote:

Presumably to get a railcard discount one needs to buy from a ticket
office?

You can buy online (destination code 0035 for Z1-6) or from a
machine, but you have to carry a valid appropriate railcard with
you on the day.

Presumably only online from TfL? Not that I can find any such facility of
the TfL web site. How would one pick it up anyway? I can't see how one
would buy it online from FCC or another TOC. As I'm not on a day trip I
can't buy a Cambridge-London travelcard.

No, you presume wrong - Roland's referring to buying one from one of the
online rail booking systems (tickets for which can be collected from
National Rail ticket machines which are hooked into the system). Given that
you can buy one from an NR ticket machine anyway, there's no real need to
buy it online.

In article , (Mizter T)
wrote:

wrote:

In article ,
(Roland Perry) wrote:

Presumably to get a railcard discount one needs to buy from a ticket
office?

You can buy online (destination code 0035 for Z1-6) or from a
machine, but you have to carry a valid appropriate railcard with
you on the day.

Presumably only online from TfL? Not that I can find any such facility
of the TfL web site. How would one pick it up anyway? I can't see how
one would buy it online from FCC or another TOC. As I'm not on a day
trip I can't buy a Cambridge-London travelcard.

No, you presume wrong - Roland's referring to buying one from one
of the online rail booking systems (tickets for which can be
collected from National Rail ticket machines which are hooked into
the system). Given that you can buy one from an NR ticket machine
anyway, there's no real need to buy it online.

An in-London travelcard? I can't get a Day Travelcard to and from London
because I'm not coming back the same day. I did look at a TOC site and
couldn't see how to buy an in-London day travelcard. They only offer
tickets between destinations.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote in message news
No, you presume wrong - Roland's referring to buying one from one
of the online rail booking systems (tickets for which can be
collected from National Rail ticket machines which are hooked into
the system). Given that you can buy one from an NR ticket machine
anyway, there's no real need to buy it online.

An in-London travelcard? I can't get a Day Travelcard to and from London
because I'm not coming back the same day. I did look at a TOC site and
couldn't see how to buy an in-London day travelcard. They only offer
tickets between destinations.

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in London, it
should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare options.

Peter Smyth

"Peter Smyth" wrote:

No, you presume wrong - Roland's referring to buying one from one
of the online rail booking systems (tickets for which can be
collected from National Rail ticket machines which are hooked into
the system). Given that you can buy one from an NR ticket machine
anyway, there's no real need to buy it online.

An in-London travelcard? I can't get a Day Travelcard to and from London
because I'm not coming back the same day. I did look at a TOC site and
couldn't see how to buy an in-London day travelcard. They only offer
tickets between destinations.

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in London, it
should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare options.


Indeed. Potentially useful for buying Day Travelcards in advance, or as part
of some split-ticketing scheme.

In article ,
(Peter Smyth) wrote:

wrote in message
news
No, you presume wrong - Roland's referring to buying one from one
of the online rail booking systems (tickets for which can be
collected from National Rail ticket machines which are hooked into
the system). Given that you can buy one from an NR ticket machine
anyway, there's no real need to buy it online.

An in-London travelcard? I can't get a Day Travelcard to and from
London because I'm not coming back the same day. I did look at a TOC
site and couldn't see how to buy an in-London day travelcard. They only
offer tickets between destinations.

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in
London, it should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare
options.

OK, that sort of works as long as I make it a return journey. Not very
clear, especially as some options give two Anytime Travelcard options at
different prices without explanation.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:

In article ,
(Mizter T) wrote:

The best ticket for 'gricing' is a Day Travelcard.

I asked because I thought that paper Day Travelcards were no longer
available. Hence the need to ask about alternatives.

Eh?! Paper Day Travelcards are most certainly still available -
however since January they have not been available from newsagents
(aka Ticket Stops) - they are still very much available from all
station ticket offices and ticket machines. (For Off-peak Day
Travelcards, Railcard brings down the cost of a z1-6 version to
GBP5.30.)

OK. My confusion then. Presumably to get a railcard discount one needs to
buy from a ticket office?

No, you can get one with a Railcard discount from National Rail (& LO)
ticket machines - I think LU ticket machines now also offer them with
discounts too. (Don't expect any favours from a DLR ticket machine though -
nor, for that
matter, a Tramlink one!)

(Of course, the Network Railcard only provides the discount on inboundary
Day Travelcards at the weekend or on bank holidays, courtesy of said
Railcard's £13 weekday minimum fare.)