I need to travel to Gatwick (returning a few days later), but already
have a zones 1-5 travelcard, so buying a boundary zone 5 to Gatwick
ticket seems like the obvious choice (provided I don't want to take
the Gatwick Express, I suppose).

Is it possible to obtain boundary zone tickets in advance via the web?
If so, how? (Strangely, telling thetrainline.com that I wanted to
depart from 'boundary zone 5' didn't seem to work! ;-)

Also, are BZ tickets available as period returns, or only day returns?
I'd prefer to avoid having to guess, on my way back, whether the next
train is going to be for Victoria or London Bridge - and as previously
discussed here you can get a wherever to BZx ticket as the return
half of a return, but not as a single...


Christopher

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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 21:18:36 -0000, Christopher Allen
wrote:


Is it possible to obtain boundary zone tickets in advance via the web?
If so, how? (Strangely, telling thetrainline.com that I wanted to
depart from 'boundary zone 5' didn't seem to work! ;-)


Find out which station is at the boundary on that route (or just
inside the boundary if not an actual boundary station) and get a
ticket from there to Gatwick.

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:29:35 +0100, Barry Salter
wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 21:18:36 -0000, Christopher Allen
wrote:

Is it possible to obtain boundary zone tickets in advance via the web?
If so, how? (Strangely, telling thetrainline.com that I wanted to
depart from 'boundary zone 5' didn't seem to work! ;-)

Unfortunately not. To get an extension, you have to physically go to a
Ticket Office and buy it. You can, however, do so up to 364 days in
advance, if you've got the appropriate Season available.


Not quite 364 days! You can buy most walk-up tickets in advance up to
the expiry date of the current NFM.