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

tim..... · September 10th 09, 05:55 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 is. TOCs were told that they must abandon any previous policy of
refusing such requests and were obliged to sell any NR ticket from A to B,
regardless of where A and B are. AIUI they are not obliged to sell PTE
tickets out of area.

tim