I occasionally travel from London to St Albans and back on a Saturday.
Having a Freedom Pass, I normally purchase in advance a Boundary Zone 6
to St Albans day return with a Senior Citizen Card discount which costs
£2.20.
A few weeks ago I needed to travel there at short notice when I was near
City Thameslink, but on Saturdays the ticket office there is not open.
Rather than travel through without a valid ticket I detrained at Elstree
& Borehamwood, the boundary station, to rebook and was charged £2.90. I
have never previously found a Boundary Zone 6 station where the actual
fares were different.
Does anyone know whether the LU office at Farringdon can issue Boundary
tickets with Senior discounts?

Could it be they didn't sell a boundary ticket but a ticket from that
station instead and the fare is calculated differently?

They should be able to do it at Farringdon as they are used to NR fares but
it may take a bit of time looking at charts etc.

S

"Jim Brittin" [wake up for reply] wrote in
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I occasionally travel from London to St Albans and back on a Saturday.
Having a Freedom Pass, I normally purchase in advance a Boundary Zone 6
to St Albans day return with a Senior Citizen Card discount which costs
£2.20.
A few weeks ago I needed to travel there at short notice when I was near
City Thameslink, but on Saturdays the ticket office there is not open.
Rather than travel through without a valid ticket I detrained at Elstree
& Borehamwood, the boundary station, to rebook and was charged £2.90. I
have never previously found a Boundary Zone 6 station where the actual
fares were different.
Does anyone know whether the LU office at Farringdon can issue Boundary
tickets with Senior discounts?

In article ,
says...
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 08:48:08 GMT, "SJCWHUK"
wrote:

Could it be they didn't sell a boundary ticket but a ticket from that
station instead and the fare is calculated differently?

As Freedom Passes are treated as Season Tickets for the purposes of
issuing Ticket Extensions, the extension is generally cheaper than a
ticket from the boundary station.

Looking at Section K3 of the NFM, a Cheap Day Return from Bounday Zone 6
to St Albans (City) is £3.30 undiscounted (£2.20 with a Railcard)

From Section K4 (Off Peak Day/Family/Weekend Travelcard Excess Fares)
it's £4.50 undiscounted (£2.95 with a Railcard). [That being the
difference between an Off-Peak Travelcard from St Albans to All Zones,
and an All Zones Off Peak Travelcard).

From QJump.co.uk, a CDR from Elstree and Borehamwood to St Albans is
£4.40 undiscounted (£2.90 with a Railcard).

HTH,

Barry


Thanks Barry, good to know Elstree & B weren't ripping me off