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What hours are they good for? is the weekend good on all travel times?


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They are good from 09:30 until 04:30 the following morning Monday - Friday,
and at any time Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays.

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They are good from 09:30 until 04:30 the following morning Monday - Friday,
and at any time Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holidays.


and you can buy them in advance (up to 4 days IIRC) so you can hop on a
bus close to home and avoid the queueueueueues at the ticket office.

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and you can buy them in advance (up to 4 days IIRC) so you can hop on a
bus close to home and avoid the queueueueueues at the ticket office.


It is seven days for the one-day and weekend cards. The four days is for
the period travelcards on paper tickets (you can charge an Oystercard a
month in advance).

My local railway station would never sell off-peak travelcards until
approximately 9:25am on the day of travel (i.e. after the last timetabled
departure before 9:30am) and the ticket machines also wouldn't offer them
until quite near 9:30am. I assumed this was a widespread policy and was
blissfully unaware till this year that you *could* buy them in advance
elsewhere.

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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:46:56 +0100, "Graham J"
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My local railway station would never sell off-peak travelcards until
approximately 9:25am on the day of travel (i.e. after the last timetabled
departure before 9:30am) and the ticket machines also wouldn't offer them
until quite near 9:30am. I assumed this was a widespread policy and was
blissfully unaware till this year that you *could* buy them in advance
elsewhere.


Last Tuesday I bought an off-peak travelcard at about 8am from a
ticket agent.

That got me thinking: can O/P travelcards be used on buses before
9:30am?


Cheers,

Jason.


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That got me thinking: can O/P travelcards be used on buses before
9:30am?


Not officially.

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Jason wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:46:56 +0100, "Graham J"
wrote:

My local railway station would never sell off-peak travelcards
until approximately 9:25am on the day of travel (i.e. after the
last timetabled departure before 9:30am) and the ticket machines
also wouldn't offer them until quite near 9:30am. I assumed this
was a widespread policy and was blissfully unaware till this year
that you *could* buy them in advance elsewhere.


Last Tuesday I bought an off-peak travelcard at about 8am from a
ticket agent.

That got me thinking: can O/P travelcards be used on buses before
9:30am?


No, they are not valid anywhere before 09:30 Mon-Fri (all-day validity
at weekends). Curiously there is no definition of what off-peak means
in the TfL Fares for 2004 leaflet, but it's defined in the more
comprehensive 58-page Fares and Tickets booklet.
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Underground stations should sell them in advance as they will not operate
the automatic gates before 9.30am. NR stations may be more careful if they
are not gated as surprise surprise some people pretend they didn't know. :-)

Steve

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Jason wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:46:56 +0100, "Graham J"
wrote:

My local railway station would never sell off-peak travelcards
until approximately 9:25am on the day of travel (i.e. after the
last timetabled departure before 9:30am) and the ticket machines
also wouldn't offer them until quite near 9:30am. I assumed this
was a widespread policy and was blissfully unaware till this year
that you *could* buy them in advance elsewhere.


Last Tuesday I bought an off-peak travelcard at about 8am from a
ticket agent.

That got me thinking: can O/P travelcards be used on buses before
9:30am?


No, they are not valid anywhere before 09:30 Mon-Fri (all-day validity
at weekends). Curiously there is no definition of what off-peak means
in the TfL Fares for 2004 leaflet, but it's defined in the more
comprehensive 58-page Fares and Tickets booklet.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)



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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 17:46:56 +0100, "Graham J"
wrote:

and you can buy them in advance (up to 4 days IIRC) so you can hop on a
bus close to home and avoid the queueueueueues at the ticket office.


It is seven days for the one-day and weekend cards. The four days is for
the period travelcards on paper tickets (you can charge an Oystercard a
month in advance).

My local railway station would never sell off-peak travelcards until
approximately 9:25am on the day of travel (i.e. after the last timetabled
departure before 9:30am) and the ticket machines also wouldn't offer them
until quite near 9:30am. I assumed this was a widespread policy and was
blissfully unaware till this year that you *could* buy them in advance
elsewhere.


It sounds odd, but whilst you *can* buy that up to seven days in
advance from NR stations, you can't buy them *on the day* before the
departure of the last restricted service!

At least that's the rule, a lot of ticket offices sell them anyway and
stamp them 'not valid until 0930' or whatever the restriction is from
their station.

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