London Banter - View Single Post - Senior railcard discount - or not?

[email protected] · September 10th 09, 04:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(John B) wrote:

On Sep 10, 12:51*am, wrote:
The standard FCC ruse at Cambridge for those who want to return
within the evening peak is the buy an Off-Peak Day Return or Day
Travelcard from Ely which is cheaper than the anytime version.
Cambridge are happy to sell tickets from Ely, seeing as it's
NXEA and not FCC selling them.

Interesting - thanks for that, that's one to remember. For those not
clued up on these things (and I had to check!), FCC created the
concept of "zones A to E" so as to apply their off-peak evening
restrictions - Ely is in zone E whilst Cambridge is in zone D - and
yes, return journeys to zone E are exempt from the restrictions,
whilst zone D isn't.

It's not clear to me that FCC themselves would sell Ely tickets.

They're legally obliged to, if you ask for one.

Including to someone not starting at Ely, you mean? I didn't think that
was so clear-cut. It's pretty academic as far as Cambridge and Ely are
concerned (though at busy times FCC staff do sell tickets at Cambridge
from portable machines). Local stations towards Royston might be more
interesting.

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Colin Rosenstiel