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Travelcard pricing - is this really correct?
Hi all,
I've been trying to get my head around some odd ticket pricing, and I just wanted to check that what I'm seeing is correct. All of this refers to off-peak one-day Travelcards. If I buy a cheap-day return from, say, Sawbridgeworth in Hertfordshire, to London Liverpool St, it costs £10.50. However, the same station will sell me a ticket with a one-day Travelcard included for £14.50. Hence it's cost me £4.00 for the Travelcard. But the cheapest I can get a Travelcard from an UndergrounD station is £5.10 - and that's just a Z1-2 card, whereas my National Rail one is Z1-6. Is this really right? Buying a travelcard with a train ticket costs just £4.00 - better than the standard Travelcard price, and better even than the Oyster pay-as-you-go capped price (which I believe is 50p less than the equivalent Travelcard). (I also note that if I have a Railcard, then the discount applies to the Travelcard portion of the ticket, too - e.g. with a YP railcard I could get a One Day Travelcard from Sawbridgeworth for just £2.60 more than the CDR alone. Or with a Network Railcard, I hit the minimum fare of £10 and my Travelcard is free!) It seems odd that train users are afforded this perk of cheap off-peak travelcards. It's also odd that these prices beat PAYG Oyster, when I understood the whole pricing methodology these days was to encourage as much Oyster use as possible. All comments welcome. Thanks, Sam |
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