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December 30th 10, 11:52 PM
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Contacting TFL (and use of gold card "registered" oyster cards)
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December 31st 10, 05:16 PM
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Contacting TFL (and use of gold card "registered" oyster cards)
On 30 Dec 2010 23:52:45 GMT,
David Jackman pleasereplytogroup wrote: " wrote in news:2c093a3f-38d0- : AIUI you cannot put a network railcard on to a PAYG oyster to get a discount. It's only gold cards that are eligible for the discount. When did this change? I'm sure Gold Cards weren't included when I last looked! I only found out about it a week or two ago. Currently (I think until 3rd Jan) there is a discount on the cap - but as I've never reached the cap the fact that I didn't know about it hasn't affected me. From 3rd Jan there is also a 1/3 discount on off-peak fares if your Gold card is registered on your oyster card. (You select the "railcard" option on the fare finder) There is no "off peak single" paper ticket to directly compare with but the price of off peak returns and anytime returns that can be bought with a gold card suggest that these fares aren't out of line so purely on a fare basis there doesn't seem to be a good reason for not allowing someone travelling with the gold card holder to use the gold card holders oyster card. 2011 prices Any Any OffPeak Peak OffPeak Single Return Return Oyster Oyster No Railcard 8.30 14.00 9.10 6.90 4.10 Gold Card 5.50 9.25 6.00 6.90 2.70 It would be nice not to have to allow time to buy a ticket when we travel into London at the weekend and just let my partner use my Oyster. I expect this is a slightly unusual case in that my gold card covers a journey that can be done entirely by oyster[1] but I cannot have my gold card on oyster (other than by getting an all zones oyster) so I can reasonably be making a journey where someone else can take advantage of my gold card discount without me also needing to use my oyster card (Not completely unreasonable, network railcard discounts have a minimum fare which would exceed any PAYG oyster fare) True during the week, but it would be useful at weekends. However, I think people might object if their minimum fare during the week went up to 13GBP just so they could get 1/3 off at weekends. :-) Tim. p.s. Had they not moved the peak start from 07:00 to 06:30 it might have been cheaper for me to have bought whatever is the cheapest gold card and then gone back to using PAYG oyster. As it is I haven't moved my start time but I now often travel on a return train from Euston before 7pm. [1] Actually it doesn't but I almost never use the Watford Junction - How Wood that, IIRC, cost me an extra 8GBP for the year and I'd give that up to get my season ticket onto Oyster. It used to be no extra charge at all which is why I originally added it and I do make a few trips to St Albans each year so a) I only buy a How Wood - St Albans Abbey ticket and b) I have an interest in keeping that line open. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://www.woodall.me.uk/ |
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