Possible to buy a single Tube ticket / inboundary Travelcard milesaway from London?
 

Question from a friend, but I'm curious too.

Is it possible to buy a single London Underground ticket (e.g. zone 1
only) from an NR ticket office many miles away from London (in this case
Yorkshire)?

Ditto for buying an inboundary Day Travelcard (i.e. zones 1-6)?

FWIW, in this case, using contactless cards aren't an option, nor is
Oyster (several are travelling, but either not enough for the 10+ Tube
Group ticket, or else they wouldn't be able to travel all together - I'm
a bit murky on the details of this endeavour).

I know it's possible to get online booking engines to offer inboundary
Day Travelcards, but they can't be made to offer single Tube tickets.

Can an NR ticket office sell them? I've had a quick fiddle with
BRfares.com ("zone u1* Londn" etc) without much luck.

Possible to buy a single Tube ticket / inboundary Travelcard miles away from London?
 

Mizter T wrote:

Question from a friend, but I'm curious too.

Is it possible to buy a single London Underground ticket (e.g. zone 1
only) from an NR ticket office many miles away from London (in this
case Yorkshire)?

Ditto for buying an inboundary Day Travelcard (i.e. zones 1-6)?

FWIW, in this case, using contactless cards aren't an option, nor is
Oyster (several are travelling, but either not enough for the 10+
Tube Group ticket, or else they wouldn't be able to travel all
together - I'm a bit murky on the details of this endeavour).

I know it's possible to get online booking engines to offer
inboundary Day Travelcards, but they can't be made to offer single
Tube tickets.

Can an NR ticket office sell them? I've had a quick fiddle with
BRfares.com ("zone u1* Londn" etc) without much luck.

Yes, they both can be sold at any NR station, although it is possible
the clerk may not know how to.

For a single LU journey, it would be origin "London Terminals" and
destination "Zone U1* Londn". For a travelcard it is origin any station
in London, destination "London Zones 1-6".

Have you already bought your rail tickets? It would be cheaper to buy a
through ticket to Zone U1.

Peter Smyth

Possible to buy a single Tube ticket / inboundary Travelcard miles away from London?
 

"Mizter T" wrote Question from a friend, but I'm curious too.

Is it possible to buy a single London Underground ticket (e.g. zone 1
only) from an NR ticket office many miles away from London (in this case
Yorkshire)?

Ditto for buying an inboundary Day Travelcard (i.e. zones 1-6)?


This latter I can confirm works fine.

As I previously noted under the "cheaper to buy two tickets" idea

From out in the sticks/ beyond the zones (Surrey) I asked for a off-peak
return to Surbiton (Z6) and a ODTC /from/ Surbiton and got them.


--
Mike D

Possible to buy a single Tube ticket / inboundary Travelcard miles away from London?
 

"Mizter T" wrote in message
...
Question from a friend, but I'm curious too.

Is it possible to buy a single London Underground ticket (e.g. zone 1
only) from an NR ticket office many miles away from London (in this case
Yorkshire)?

Ditto for buying an inboundary Day Travelcard (i.e. zones 1-6)?

FWIW, in this case, using contactless cards aren't an option, nor is
Oyster (several are travelling, but either not enough for the 10+ Tube
Group ticket, or else they wouldn't be able to travel all together - I'm a
bit murky on the details of this endeavour).

I know it's possible to get online booking engines to offer inboundary Day
Travelcards, but they can't be made to offer single Tube tickets.

Can an NR ticket office sell them? I've had a quick fiddle with
BRfares.com ("zone u1* Londn" etc) without much luck.


Southern sell inbound travelcards (usually as "Battersea Park to Zones ...")
in Anytime or Off-Peak versions, and I think they still post them 1st class
FOC when ordered online. I think the nearest you'll get to a zone 1 single
on paper from a NR outlet would be a Zones 1&2 travelcard, but I may be
wrong.

--
DAS

Possible to buy a single Tube ticket / inboundary Travelcard miles away from London?
 

On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:09:44 +0100, "D A Stocks"
wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote in message
...
Question from a friend, but I'm curious too.

Is it possible to buy a single London Underground ticket (e.g. zone 1
only) from an NR ticket office many miles away from London (in this case
Yorkshire)?

Ditto for buying an inboundary Day Travelcard (i.e. zones 1-6)?

FWIW, in this case, using contactless cards aren't an option, nor is
Oyster (several are travelling, but either not enough for the 10+ Tube
Group ticket, or else they wouldn't be able to travel all together - I'm a
bit murky on the details of this endeavour).

I know it's possible to get online booking engines to offer inboundary Day
Travelcards, but they can't be made to offer single Tube tickets.

Can an NR ticket office sell them? I've had a quick fiddle with
BRfares.com ("zone u1* Londn" etc) without much luck.


Southern sell inbound travelcards (usually as "Battersea Park to Zones ...")
in Anytime or Off-Peak versions, and I think they still post them 1st class
FOC when ordered online. I think the nearest you'll get to a zone 1 single
on paper from a NR outlet would be a Zones 1&2 travelcard, but I may be
wrong.

I don't recall there ever being a Zone 1 only Travelcard BICBW.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms...s-jan-2014.pdf
shows Travelcard rates for Zone 1 only but they are actually the same
as Zones 1-2.

Possible to buy a single Tube ticket / inboundary Travelcard miles away from London?
 

Charles Ellson wrote:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2014 21:09:44 +0100, "D A Stocks"
wrote:

"Mizter T" wrote in message
...
Question from a friend, but I'm curious too.

Is it possible to buy a single London Underground ticket (e.g. zone 1
only) from an NR ticket office many miles away from London (in this case
Yorkshire)?

Ditto for buying an inboundary Day Travelcard (i.e. zones 1-6)?

FWIW, in this case, using contactless cards aren't an option, nor is
Oyster (several are travelling, but either not enough for the 10+ Tube
Group ticket, or else they wouldn't be able to travel all together - I'm a
bit murky on the details of this endeavour).

I know it's possible to get online booking engines to offer inboundary Day
Travelcards, but they can't be made to offer single Tube tickets.

Can an NR ticket office sell them? I've had a quick fiddle with
BRfares.com ("zone u1* Londn" etc) without much luck.


Southern sell inbound travelcards (usually as "Battersea Park to Zones ...")
in Anytime or Off-Peak versions, and I think they still post them 1st class
FOC when ordered online. I think the nearest you'll get to a zone 1 single
on paper from a NR outlet would be a Zones 1&2 travelcard, but I may be
wrong.

I don't recall there ever being a Zone 1 only Travelcard BICBW.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms...s-jan-2014.pdf
shows Travelcard rates for Zone 1 only but they are actually the same
as Zones 1-2.

That's true today, but I thought there used to be one in the past. TfL has
reduced the number of zonal travel cards available.

Possible to buy a single Tube ticket / inboundary Travelcard miles away from London?
 

"Recliner" wrote

I don't recall there ever being a Zone 1 only Travelcard BICBW.
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms...s-jan-2014.pdf
shows Travelcard rates for Zone 1 only but they are actually the same as
Zones 1-2.

That's true today, but I thought there used to be one in the past. TfL has
reduced the number of zonal travel cards available.

There was no Zone 1 TC in 2009, only Zones 1-2.
"Your Guide to fares and Tickets within Zones 1-6 January 2009"


--
Mike D