On Thursday, 29 August 2013 09:51:05 UTC+1, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at

09:16:39 on Wed, 28 Aug 2013, Matthew Dickinson

remarked:

Travelcards on Oyster are valid on Virgin (and in theory on Scotrail,

but I don't think it saves anything) if combined with a paper ticket

from the boundary zone of the Travelcard.



Would it be correct to say that:



the Oyster Travelcard validity you mention is because the minimum

available is a "7 day season ticket"?



a Paper one-day Travelcard is not a season, but a ODTC plus a BZ ticket

*is* allowable because it's actually transformed into a 'new ticket'

viz: the return half of an outboundary Travelcard.



there's some dispute as to whether Virgin accept Oyster-based products

*at all*. [What official document confirms or denies this?]

--

Roland Perry

Virgin have to treat Oyster cards (and ITSO cards) the same as paper tickets under section 9 of the CoC.

"Any reference in these conditions to the term "ticket" includes an Electronic Ticket unless specifically stated otherwise.



An Electronic Ticket may be stored on a:
(i)Smartcard (including an Oyster or ITSO card);
(ii)payment card or identity card;
(iii)mobile telephone;
(iv)personal organiser;
(v)other mobile electronic device; "


An interesting webpage on this subject is at:

http://virgintrains.org.uk/

(Not the official Virgin Trains website)