Brimstone wrote:

Does anyone knows how much a session ticket cost from Reading to
Central London. Basically I want to travel from Reading - Paddington -
London Barbicon and I want to estimate my cost of travel per month.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

You'ld think so, wouldn't you, but no, the National Rail site does not
have details of season tickets. You can instead go to
http://www.swt-seasontickets.com/. You need to register for this site,
but it will give you season ticket prices for pretty much any journey.

I don't have a current fares book to hand, but I can tell the OP that
Reading to Paddington alone cost GBP 72.90 last year. So add about 4 per
cent, plus whatever the Travelcard add-on might be (I've never
understood how they're calculated).

That's for a 7 day season by the way. Multiply by 40 for an annual,
multiply by 3.84 for a monthly. You can have any length of validity
between a month and a year, with suitably tapered prices.

Meanwhile, let's see what the good people at u.t.l. can tell us.
--
Joyce Whitchurch, Stalybridge, UK
=================================

Joyce Whitchurch wrote:

Brimstone wrote:

Does anyone knows how much a session ticket cost from Reading to
Central London. Basically I want to travel from Reading - Paddington -
London Barbicon and I want to estimate my cost of travel per month.

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

You'ld think so, wouldn't you, but no, the National Rail site does not
have details of season tickets. You can instead go to
http://www.swt-seasontickets.com/. You need to register for this site,
but it will give you season ticket prices for pretty much any journey.

I don't have a current fares book to hand, but I can tell the OP that
Reading to Paddington alone cost GBP 72.90 last year. So add about 4 per
cent, plus whatever the Travelcard add-on might be (I've never
understood how they're calculated).

That's for a 7 day season by the way. Multiply by 40 for an annual,
multiply by 3.84 for a monthly. You can have any length of validity
between a month and a year, with suitably tapered prices.

Meanwhile, let's see what the good people at u.t.l. can tell us.



I can tell you that you can use the equivalent online season ticket
system from Southern at
https://www.southernrailway.trainsfares.co.uk/ using these login
details obtained from the exceptionally useful service BugMeNot
http://www.bugmenot.com/...

username:
password: password

....and you can find out the prices of any monthly or longer season
tickets to your hearts content.

Mizter T wrote:

I can tell you that you can use the equivalent online season ticket
system from Southern at
https://www.southernrailway.trainsfares.co.uk/ using these login
details obtained from the exceptionally useful service BugMeNot
http://www.bugmenot.com/...

I'm obliged to you, sir! I have only an academic interest in the price
of London area season tickets, but the BugMeNot site is a splendid idea!
--
Joyce Whitchurch, Stalybridge, UK
=================================

Mizter T wrote:

...and you can find out the prices of any monthly or longer season
tickets to your hearts content.

I love this bugmenot site! "Welcome, notyou", is the new message from
www.trainsfares.co.uk.

Sadly, the site itself turns out to be complete tripe and it doesn't
work with Firefox. So, in desperation, I'll turn to the assembled
scribes of uk.railway.

The OP's original question was:

Does anyone knows how much a session ticket cost from Reading to
Central London. Basically I want to travel from Reading - Paddington -
London Barbicon and I want to estimate my cost of travel per month.

Has anyone at u.r got access to a current NFM and can calculate the
price of a monthly season?
--
Joyce Whitchurch, Stalybridge, UK
=================================

Joyce Whitchurch wrote:
Mizter T wrote:

...and you can find out the prices of any monthly or longer season
tickets to your hearts content.

I love this bugmenot site! "Welcome, notyou", is the new message from
www.trainsfares.co.uk.

Sadly, the site itself turns out to be complete tripe and it doesn't
work with Firefox. So, in desperation, I'll turn to the assembled
scribes of uk.railway.

Trainsfares always used to work, last used it a fortnight ago. It looks
completely screwed now though, no images etc, doesn't recognise logged
in user.

Konqueror allows you to click a link bu tsome get some strange 404
message from some minor web server -- "Internet Information Services
(IIS)"

Also says "If you cannot view this page please phone this number: 0870
010 1296", which is tempting if it wasn't a premium rate number.

Southern railway (linked) works, as does
http://www.trainsfares.co.uk/season/...p?sitecode=SWT

The OP's original question was:

Does anyone knows how much a session ticket cost from Reading to
Central London. Basically I want to travel from Reading - Paddington -
London Barbicon and I want to estimate my cost of travel per month.

Has anyone at u.r got access to a current NFM and can calculate the
price of a monthly season?

RDG-LDN (PAD or WAT) £292.70
RDG-Z1256 £338.00
First class is
RDG-LDN £526.90
RDG-Z1256 £608.30

Joyce Whitchurch wrote:
I love this bugmenot site! "Welcome, notyou", is the new message from
www.trainsfares.co.uk.

Sadly, the site itself turns out to be complete tripe and it doesn't
work with Firefox. So, in desperation, I'll turn to the assembled
scribes of uk.railway.

The OP's original question was:

Does anyone knows how much a session ticket cost from Reading to
Central London. Basically I want to travel from Reading - Paddington -
London Barbicon and I want to estimate my cost of travel per month.

Has anyone at u.r got access to a current NFM and can calculate the
price of a monthly season?

I think the only monthly season that'll get the OP to Barbican is a
Reading - z1-6, at £338.00.

London Terminals costs £292.70 - will that allow the OP to go anywhere
other than Waterloo and Paddington whence the City might be walkable
(e.g. Cannon Street)? Doubt it, but can't quite face looking that one
up in the Routing Guide this morning...

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

Joyce Whitchurch wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

...and you can find out the prices of any monthly or longer season
tickets to your hearts content.

I love this bugmenot site! "Welcome, notyou", is the new message from
www.trainsfares.co.uk.

Sadly, the site itself turns out to be complete tripe and it doesn't
work with Firefox. So, in desperation, I'll turn to the assembled
scribes of uk.railway.


Hmm, I've just gone directly to the URL I originally quoted [1] (for
the Southern branded season ticket service), using Firefox, and it all
works fine.

https://www.southernrailway.trainsfares.co.uk/

The Southern branded online season ticket service and the SWT one are
of course just two frontends to the same system.

In message .com, at
06:12:51 on Sat, 7 Oct 2006, John B remarked:
London Terminals costs £292.70 - will that allow the OP to go anywhere
other than Waterloo and Paddington whence the City might be walkable
(e.g. Cannon Street)? Doubt it, but can't quite face looking that one
up in the Routing Guide this morning...

iirc you can take a train to Waterloo, thence via Waterloo East to
London Bridge, all for the price of a "London Terminals" ticket.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry wrote:

iirc you can take a train to Waterloo, thence via Waterloo East to
London Bridge, all for the price of a "London Terminals" ticket.

Not true.

Mapped routes between Reading and London are WR, WV, WW and WX - none
of which include the line through Waterloo East. The only London
terminals you can use are Paddington or Waterloo - plus Olympia if you
count that as a terminal.

--
Stevie D
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In message , at 17:48:12 on
Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Stevie D remarked:
iirc you can take a train to Waterloo, thence via Waterloo East to
London Bridge, all for the price of a "London Terminals" ticket.

Not true.

Mapped routes between Reading and London are WR, WV, WW and WX - none
of which include the line through Waterloo East. The only London
terminals you can use are Paddington or Waterloo - plus Olympia if you
count that as a terminal.

Oh well, it must have changed then (yet more penny pinching by the
ToCs). It was true when I travelled that way (quite a few years ago, but
post-privatisation).

Makes me wonder what use the "London Terminals" concept is, and why the
Fares Manual (as posted earlier) only mentions an exception for
Thameslink (in a sense that the number of London Terminals accessible
via Thameslink is specifically reduced).
--
Roland Perry