On Jun 2, 7:34*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:

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While we're doing tickets for this preview service does anyone know
whether Railcard and Privilege discounts will apply? I did try to
conjure up a journey for the new service on South Eastern's site and
also National Rail but neither had any record of the departures and
therefore the fares couldn't be displayed.

Fares wise, the route is being interwoven into the national network -
basically it will become the new "Any Permitted" route (and route AP
tickets will thus carry the HS1 premium), whilst there will be new
route "not HS1" fares (that won't attract the premium). In this
context national Railcard discounts will surely apply on the HS
service - though whether the (SE England-only) Network Railcard will
be valid is perhaps less clear (bearing in mind that it's not a
'statutory' railcard, it's an opt-in arrangement for the TOCs).

Someone has said that there'll be no priv-rate fares, but I've no idea
if that's true (perhaps the underlying fare will be available at priv-
rate, but the HS1 add-on premium won't be discounted?).