[crossposted to uk.transport.london - originally posted to uk.railway]

Andrew Wilson wrote:

I have TfL'd, Googled and Jeevesed for the following answers but they were
not forthcoming.
Could someone please tell me how much the discount is using a Disabled
Railcard on an all zones one day travel card for a Sunday. I have read a
third off but a minimum fare? applies and I can't find the actual price.
To qualify for the discount do I need to buy the travel card from national
rail, underground booking office or would they both sell me the discounted
ticket.
Many Thanks
aw56001


Quick answer - £4.80 for all zones, best to buy it from a National
Rail station if possible.

Longer answer - A Disabled Persons Railcard (DPRC) entitles you to a
discounted off-peak one day Travelcard at the price of £4.80. You can
buy an off-peak ODTC from 0930 onwards on weekdays and at anytime on
weekends and public holidays.

£4.80 is the 'minimum fare' for ODTCs purchased with any type of
railcard - you won't find this on the DPRC website or anywhere else
particularly easily - but you can find it on page F4 of section F of
the National Fares Manual (NFM) [1].

(Just for the record for holders of other types of railcards there are
further restrictions in force regarding minimum fares and the time and
day of the week - but no such restrictions apply for DPRC discounted
ODTCs.)

From what I've read on this newsgroup and on uk.transport.london people
have encountered difficulties with getting Underground ticket offices
to issue them with a railcard discounted ODTCs. Indeed some of the
railcard publicity states they can only be bought from a National Rail
station - this appears to be wrong, as some have managed it, but others
have had trouble. My quick inspection of the NFM reveals a stony
silence on the issue. You could always try I guess, but you might not
succeed.

Lastly just to agree that the online information about this is rubbish.
The DPRC website isn't helpful - in fact it has a glaring error on one
of it's pages. On the "Using the Card" page [2] it states that you can
get reductions on *Peak* Day Travelcards - this is wrong. Railcards
currently only offer discounts on off-peak ODTCs (this may change in
the future, but it hasn't happened yet).


[1] http://www.atoc.org/retail/_downloads/NFM/sectionf.pdf

[2] http://www.disabledpersons-railcard....sing/using.htm