My wife and I both work in London and comute from Kent on South East
Trains, the yearly season ticket costs about £1400 each.

We are expecting our first child in the summer and eventually when my
wife returns to work we are considering her working 2 days a week and
me working 3 days a week, so there will always be one of us at home
being house wife/husband.

One problem that this is thrown up appears to be that although between
us we will still only be making 5 return trips to London each week we
will have to each buy an annual train ticket (ie 2x £1400)

I have tried asking my local station, but they didnt seem to understand
what I was saying, so I wondered if anyone here understands what I am
saying and can think of a solution.

....the obvious answer is to buy singles, but these work out almost as
expensive and I would need to queue for 30 mins every day to buy one!

Do trains offer similar tickets to the tube Carnet? ie buy single
tickets in bulk and get a discount?
Thanks for any help

David Bevan

http://www.davidbevan.co.uk

You can buy an "impersonal season", which costs 50% more than the
equivalent Adult rate season ticket, but, as its name suggests, allows
any number of people to use it (although only one of them may be using
it at any one time).

Keith

wrote:
My wife and I both work in London and comute from Kent on South East
Trains, the yearly season ticket costs about £1400 each.

We are expecting our first child in the summer and eventually when my
wife returns to work we are considering her working 2 days a week and
me working 3 days a week, so there will always be one of us at home
being house wife/husband.

One problem that this is thrown up appears to be that although
between
us we will still only be making 5 return trips to London each week we
will have to each buy an annual train ticket (ie 2x £1400)

I have tried asking my local station, but they didnt seem to
understand
what I was saying, so I wondered if anyone here understands what I am
saying and can think of a solution.

...the obvious answer is to buy singles, but these work out almost as
expensive and I would need to queue for 30 mins every day to buy one!

Do trains offer similar tickets to the tube Carnet? ie buy single
tickets in bulk and get a discount?
Thanks for any help

David Bevan

http://www.davidbevan.co.uk

wrote:
...the obvious answer is to buy singles, but these work out almost as
expensive and I would need to queue for 30 mins every day to buy one!



You could always buy them from trainline / qjump (or SET telesales if
they have one). Buy a months worth in advance or something like that

You can buy an "impersonal season", which costs 50% more than the
equivalent Adult rate season ticket, but, as its name suggests, allows
any number of people to use it (although only one of them may be using
it at any one time).

Any idea (apart from the additional profit they'd lose) why they don't relax
the rules on travelcards and let them be used by the bearer? I think TfL
have relaxed this on weeklies now, only one person can use the ticket at any
one time anyway and it seems unfair in this case they have to buy two
tickets to do the equivalent of 5 returns. I'm sure the potential abuse is
quite small, the logistics of two people ticket sharing to get more than 5
journeys a week would be difficult..

D

wrote:
My wife and I both work in London and comute from Kent on South East
Trains, the yearly season ticket costs about £1400 each.

One problem that this is thrown up appears to be that although between
us we will still only be making 5 return trips to London each week we
will have to each buy an annual train ticket (ie 2x £1400)


2800 quid a year to sit on a late, slow, smelly train?

Get a car.

--
We are the keepers of the sacred words: Ni, Pang,
and Ni-wom!

Dave Plumb wrote:
You can buy an "impersonal season", which costs 50% more than the
equivalent Adult rate season ticket, but, as its name suggests,
allows any number of people to use it (although only one of them may
be using it at any one time).

Any idea (apart from the additional profit they'd lose) why they
don't relax the rules on travelcards and let them be used by the
bearer? I think TfL have relaxed this on weeklies now, only one
person can use the ticket at any one time anyway and it seems unfair
in this case they have to buy two tickets to do the equivalent of 5
returns. I'm sure the potential abuse is quite small, the logistics
of two people ticket sharing to get more than 5 journeys a week would
be difficult..

Quite possible if one works earlies and one works lates.


--
We are the keepers of the sacred words: Ni, Pang,
and Ni-wom!

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:47:51 -0000, "Tim S Kemp"
wrote:

2800 quid a year to sit on a late, slow, smelly train?

Get a car.

Anywhere else. perhaps. To go to London in the morning peak, I don't
think I'd put my worst enemy through that.

As a more useful answer to the OP, there may exist for your journey a
transferrable season ticket. Not all TOCs do them (they were
discussed recently on uk.railway), but it's worth asking at the
station for them to check their fares manuals.

Neil

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Tim S Kemp wrote to uk.transport.london on Mon, 10 Jan 2005:


2800 quid a year to sit on a late, slow, smelly train?

Get a car.

Which would cost nearly as much to park in Central London, plus
congestion charge, plus being less environmentally-friendly. Plus the
stress of driving there and back.... yuck! Okay, trains can be stressy,
but far less so than driving - and even slow trains can be a *lot*
quicker. Husband takes 45 minutes door-to-door if he uses the train; by
car it is a minimum of 1.5 hours, plus all the stress of driving.....
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Website updated 2 January 2005

In message , Mrs Redboots
writes

Which would cost nearly as much to park in Central London, plus
congestion charge, plus being less environmentally-friendly. Plus the
stress of driving there and back.... yuck! Okay, trains can be stressy,
but far less so than driving - and even slow trains can be a *lot*
quicker. Husband takes 45 minutes door-to-door if he uses the train; by
car it is a minimum of 1.5 hours, plus all the stress of driving.....

Best thing I ever did for me was to stop driving a car to work. It used
to take me (at the best) about an hour to get across London. It could
take as long as 3 hours on a bad day.

I changed jobs and now have a 20min motorcycle ride round the NCR.

And (oddly enough to some people around here) I actually feel that I'm
doing some good for London as I became a Tube driver.
--
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You will find him in London's Docklands, E16, UK
(please use the reply to address for email)

Mrs Redboots wrote:
Which would cost nearly as much to park in Central London, plus
congestion charge, plus being less environmentally-friendly.

I'm always amused by people who choose to travel large distances to and
from work every day, then mutter about being 'environmentally
friendly'.

Mark