student travel

antuk

If you have an ISIC card you can use that as proof instead of getting your form stamped, thats what i did last year, this year will be annoying since the NUS Extra is no longer an ISIC card, argh!!

Driving_Soon

elisebutt65 wrote: »

That is sooo PANTS!!!! I'm a mature student so I need to get my form stamped by Uni after enrolement in September!! Fed up with missing out this discount every flipping year!

That would be Amazing :rotfl:

jackk_2

piefacerecords wrote: »

If you haven't already got one, then for £20 - or might be £25 now - get a 16-25 railcard which will give you 1/3 off train fares for a year. But be warned - not before 9am! very annoying as getting to college can be pricey.

On the website it says that you can use the railcard before 10am on a weekday, but the is a minimum fare of £8 for a single or £16 for a return. So if your single fare is £10, you'll still save £2 etc.

Jackie x

Wiggynut

arrrgghhh... I can't find that link now!!!!
I keep finding this deal for March 08.. but I'm sure the one I saw said August!!

I'll keep an eye out and post if I find it - might be off another student forum.

tootiefrooties

From the railcard website:

The minimum fare is either £8.00 or £16.00 depending on the type of ticket being purchased. Most will be £8.00, but the following ticket types have a minimum fare of £16.00: Standard Day Returns, Standard Open Returns, European Open Returns.

For example: If an undiscounted Single ticket costs £8.50 and the normal 1/3 saving makes the fare £5.60, you will have to pay the minimum fare of £8.00.

Ick, why bother including this clause? If young people are travelling before 10am, the vast majority of the time it will be to go to work/ uni / college, rather than on a one-off long distance train journey. This means they'll generally be doing this journey 5 days a week.

The minimum charge is £8, and as you get 1/3 off with a railcard, then to actually make full use of the savings the original cost of a single would have to be £12. Who on earth works/studies so far away that train fare should be £24 a day? Commuters, perhaps, but I would have thought an annual travel pass or similar holds much better savings - and doesn't have an age limit.

I do have a railcard which I use for long journeys to visit family etc., but it's pretty pointless for working/studying. I always thought the rule was before 9am, not 10am, and I didn't realise they had put such a poxy exception in! How rubbish.

antuk

I think the railcarrd website is wrong about 10am, its actually peak tickets that have that restriction, I have regually bought off-peak travelcards (Im in London) at 9:30 using my young persons railcard and get the full discount and off-peak starts at 9:30am not 10

jackk_2

Who on earth works/studies so far away that train fare should be £24 a day?

Sadly, i have to commute to uni, and my fare would be £21.10, so every little helps.

Jackie x

tehone

If you happen to be studying in London, then you can get a student oystercard which gives you 30% discount (from memory)

Wiggynut

tehone wrote: »

If you happen to be studying in London, then you can get a student oystercard which gives you 30% discount (from memory)

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/faresandtickets/1014.aspx

full and part time students: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/oysteronline/photocards/18plusstudents/2976.aspx

(I think it's 35% off capped fares for pay as you go - Uni students (might be with the young persons rail card (students))