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No, you presume wrong - Roland's referring to buying one from one
of the online rail booking systems (tickets for which can be
collected from National Rail ticket machines which are hooked into
the system). Given that you can buy one from an NR ticket machine
anyway, there's no real need to buy it online.

An in-London travelcard? I can't get a Day Travelcard to and from London
because I'm not coming back the same day. I did look at a TOC site and
couldn't see how to buy an in-London day travelcard. They only offer
tickets between destinations.

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in London, it
should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare options.

Peter Smyth

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No, you presume wrong - Roland's referring to buying one from one
of the online rail booking systems (tickets for which can be
collected from National Rail ticket machines which are hooked into
the system). Given that you can buy one from an NR ticket machine
anyway, there's no real need to buy it online.

An in-London travelcard? I can't get a Day Travelcard to and from London
because I'm not coming back the same day. I did look at a TOC site and
couldn't see how to buy an in-London day travelcard. They only offer
tickets between destinations.

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in London, it
should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare options.


Indeed. Potentially useful for buying Day Travelcards in advance, or as part
of some split-ticketing scheme.

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No, you presume wrong - Roland's referring to buying one from one
of the online rail booking systems (tickets for which can be
collected from National Rail ticket machines which are hooked into
the system). Given that you can buy one from an NR ticket machine
anyway, there's no real need to buy it online.

An in-London travelcard? I can't get a Day Travelcard to and from
London because I'm not coming back the same day. I did look at a TOC
site and couldn't see how to buy an in-London day travelcard. They only
offer tickets between destinations.

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in
London, it should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare
options.

OK, that sort of works as long as I make it a return journey. Not very
clear, especially as some options give two Anytime Travelcard options at
different prices without explanation.

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(Peter Smyth) wrote:


If you search for a journey between any two random stations in
London, it should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare
options.

OK, that sort of works as long as I make it a return journey. Not very
clear, especially as some options give two Anytime Travelcard options at
different prices without explanation.


It's not entirely clear what you're trying to do but if I was doing
something similar from Brighton and assuming all travel was off-peak it
would probably be two Brighton to Zones 1-6 travelcards for the days I was
travelling from and to Brighton, plus a travelcard or two (sold by Southern
as something like Battersea Park to Zones 1-3) for the day(s) I was staying
in London.

It might be possible to sacrifice some flexibility and save a quid or two by
purchasing AP booked-train-only tickets to get from Brighton to Victoria and
back (and then buying two more travelcards for travel within London) but I
very much doubt this would be worth doing.
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(Peter Smyth) wrote:

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in
London, it should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare
options.

OK, that sort of works as long as I make it a return journey. Not very
clear, especially as some options give two Anytime Travelcard options
at different prices without explanation.

It's not entirely clear what you're trying to do but if I was doing
something similar from Brighton and assuming all travel was
off-peak it would probably be two Brighton to Zones 1-6
travelcards for the days I was travelling from and to Brighton,
plus a travelcard or two (sold by Southern as something like
Battersea Park to Zones 1-3) for the day(s) I was staying in London.

It might be possible to sacrifice some flexibility and save a quid
or two by purchasing AP booked-train-only tickets to get from
Brighton to Victoria and back (and then buying two more travelcards
for travel within London) but I very much doubt this would be worth
doing.

How does an off-peak return from Brighton compare with a Day Travelcard?
The extra is quite small from Cambridge, to the point that buying a
travelcard in London with an off-peak return would be cheaper. I would use
Oyster but for the fear of timing out. There's a limit to how much gricing
I can do because of the early evening appointments which I need to get to
on time.

I wonder how legitimate it would be use a Cambridge-Zone 3 ticket via
Highbury and Islington, the NLL, WLL and SWT to Putney, for example? What
about Whitechapel, ELL, NLL, WLL and SWT to Putney? I'll have a bike with
me so prefer to avoid the tube.

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(Peter Smyth) wrote:

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in
London, it should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare
options.

OK, that sort of works as long as I make it a return journey. Not very
clear, especially as some options give two Anytime Travelcard options
at different prices without explanation.

It's not entirely clear what you're trying to do but if I was doing
something similar from Brighton and assuming all travel was
off-peak it would probably be two Brighton to Zones 1-6
travelcards for the days I was travelling from and to Brighton,
plus a travelcard or two (sold by Southern as something like
Battersea Park to Zones 1-3) for the day(s) I was staying in London.

It might be possible to sacrifice some flexibility and save a quid
or two by purchasing AP booked-train-only tickets to get from
Brighton to Victoria and back (and then buying two more travelcards
for travel within London) but I very much doubt this would be worth
doing.

How does an off-peak return from Brighton compare with a Day Travelcard?
Under the circumstances I use them (super off-peak, buy online via Southern
with web discount) the web-site automatically offers the Travelcard even if
you ask for rail-only fares because it's the same price but better value.
There are other variables such as operator/route/destination, but Southern
usually give the best deal.

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DAS

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Stocks) wrote:

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Stocks) wrote:

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(Peter Smyth) wrote:

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in
London, it should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the
fare options.

OK, that sort of works as long as I make it a return journey. Not
very clear, especially as some options give two Anytime Travelcard
options at different prices without explanation.

It's not entirely clear what you're trying to do but if I was doing
something similar from Brighton and assuming all travel was
off-peak it would probably be two Brighton to Zones 1-6
travelcards for the days I was travelling from and to Brighton,
plus a travelcard or two (sold by Southern as something like
Battersea Park to Zones 1-3) for the day(s) I was staying in London.

It might be possible to sacrifice some flexibility and save a quid
or two by purchasing AP booked-train-only tickets to get from
Brighton to Victoria and back (and then buying two more travelcards
for travel within London) but I very much doubt this would be worth
doing.

How does an off-peak return from Brighton compare with a Day
Travelcard?
Under the circumstances I use them (super off-peak, buy online via
Southern with web discount) the web-site automatically offers the
Travelcard even if you ask for rail-only fares because it's the
same price but better value. There are other variables such as
operator/route/destination, but Southern usually give the best deal.

Aren't you the lucky one! FCC are amongst the greediest of TOCs in the
price to go from Day Return to Travelcard.

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Colin Rosenstiel