On Mar 10, 12:52*pm, Mike Roberts wrote:
wrote:
On 9 Mar, 23:23, (Neil Williams) wrote:
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:22:08 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

The equivalent test for extending a Travelcard, is discovering if any
ToCs don't accept them. I think the answer is "only GatEx are that
petty", but maybe others can confirm.
Careful - I am almost certain that BZ6 tickets are *not* valid on
Virgin trains. *I suspect this extends to other IC TOCs as well. *It's
to do with different accounting - an outboundary MKC to R1256 is
priced based on the idea that most people will do MKC-EUS on Virgin
then just use the Travelcard around London, whereas in the other
direction it can't work like that because the Travelcard is already
purchased.

* I am no expert - does the following help?
The Freedom Pass site makes the following statement.
Quote
The freedom pass is NOT valid for travel on train services operated by
Arriva CrossCountry, Grand Central, Hull Trains, East Midlands Trains,
Gatwick Express, National Express East Coast, Virgin Trains and Heathrow
Express, or on Heathrow Connect between Hayes & Harlington and Heathrow.
Unquote
I think that this rule is identical to the one that at least used to be
applied to travelcards. The Heathrow branch is a special case, but non
of the others allow a complete journey within the London Zones and
therefore cannot be used for travel with a London Zones only ticket.


Interesting that they mention Gatwick Express. It's either no longer
true or else it's train-specific, rather than operator.