[Help] Train ticket query

[GT49er]

Brilliant. Thanks all

One thing in #Madafwo's post you might need to check out. I think the idea of a full price ticket to Hayward's Heath and a concession fare from then on, on the same train, might only be valid if the train actually stops at Hayward's Heath - if the train thunders through HH without stopping, it could be argued that your original ticket was not valid, as you were never travelling to HH in the first place.
Not certain about this, but worth checking?

 

[Gwylan]

One thing in #Madafwo's post you might need to check out. I think the idea of a full price ticket to Hayward's Heath and a concession fare from then on, on the same train, might only be valid if the train actually stops at Hayward's Heath - if the train thunders through HH without stopping, it could be argued that your original ticket was not valid, as you were never travelling to HH in the first place.
Not certain about this, but worth checking?

I'm pretty sure that all trains to London now stop at HH - the days of stopping solely at Gatwick or at East Croydon are long gone

 

[GT49er]

I'm pretty sure that all trains to London now stop at HH - the days of stopping solely at Gatwick or at East Croydon are long gone

Fairy nuff.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

A bloke I know buys a railcard ticket whenever he uses the train despite never having had one. I have a disabled railcard and have never been asked to show it so he'll probably be ok.

My other half didn't realise he could get a disabled railcard because he wore hearing aids. They are cheaper than veteran's railcards or old people's railcards.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Senior railcards can be used anytime

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Senior railcards can be used anytime

Is that across the board?

A Kent based colleague (when I was based in London) used to have to travel in via a different route (before 9am) as according to him it wasn’t cost effective to travel direct. He went home via a more direct route as after 9am.

I can’t recall the specifics but equally he was a bit extreme generally

 

[dsr-burnley]

My other half didn't realise he could get a disabled railcard because he wore hearing aids. They are cheaper than veteran's railcards or old people's railcards.

And they cover a travelling companion too.

My mother travels to Blackpool most weeks, on her own but with a wheelchair. (I put her on at one end, my brother meets her at the other.) By the time we have got her wheelchair settled, the guard never even asks for the ticket , let alone the railcard.

I suspect the reason is if they find a wheelchair passenger without a ticket, they don't want to put her off the train because the press coverage would be awful, and because they would have to get someone to look after her on the station. (She does have a ticket!)

 

[happypig]

My other half didn't realise he could get a disabled railcard because he wore hearing aids. They are cheaper than veteran's railcards or old people's railcards.

That's what I've got. 1/3 off for me and an adult companion, so Mrs H and I can go up the London for about £22 each

 

[Thunder Bolt]

And they cover a travelling companion too.

My mother travels to Blackpool most weeks, on her own but with a wheelchair. (I put her on at one end, my brother meets her at the other.) By the time we have got her wheelchair settled, the guard never even asks for the ticket , let alone the railcard.

I suspect the reason is if they find a wheelchair passenger without a ticket, they don't want to put her off the train because the press coverage would be awful, and because they would have to get someone to look after her on the station. (She does have a ticket!)

The railcard is on his phone. It's digital.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

I've had a digital Network card for a few years, never been asked to show it apart from the rare occasions seeing a real person in a ticket office to buy a ticket when the machines are broken.

 

[sully]

Well they should be imo, I mean how many who have one actually travel in those times, very few I would imagine so no major loss in revenue

On the basis that you can have a Senior Railcard at age 60 and retirement age is already 66, I’d imagine it would benefit quite a few (certainly me) if they were valid in the morning “rush”.
I’m just glad there’s no restrictions coming back, as it saves me £10 - £15 every time I have to go into the office.

 

[Madafwo]

The easiest one used to be simply buying a ticket when you got off at Brighton, and saying you'd caught the train at Aldrington. The number of people travelling from Aldrington to Brighton on a Friday night was astonishing!

Thanks to the Aldrington Rude Boys.

Not sure I'd condone fare evasion.

 

[Gwylan]

On checking conditions, Senior Railcards are only valid after 9.30 NOT 9.00, so that's scrapped all those plans

 

[Audax]

Spent a day (a Friday!) travelling by public transport in Sydney while on holiday last month. Train into Circular Quay in the morning. Ferry across the harbour to Taronga at lunch time. Ferry back to Circular Quay. And late afternoon / early evening train back to where we were staying. OK, it was all within Sydney proper. But still ... all managed without any faffing about using credit card, with a capped daily charge under £10. Only minor quibble is because we were only there for the day, we didn't sort out an Opal (Oyster equivalent) card for my son so he had to pay adult rate instead of the 50% discounted kids rate that's available.

We could have done a lot more and still paid less than £10 each. By comparison, I paid £18 for a super-off-peak East Grinstead to Uckfield single a couple of weeks back after dropping my car in for insurance repair.