Freedom Pass valid 24hrs from Jan 2nd 2009

MrsGrey

Thanks for the info. It sounds as though this ony works travelling INTO London, as it is a real mission to go to a main London station to get a ticket!
I think they mean the Senior Railcard. i have just ordered mine, and I am told that you can use it ( one third reduction) as well as doing the Zone 6 thing.

dzug1

LittleVoice wrote: »

According to the Freedom Pass website (http://www.freedompass.org/important.htm) - the Elderly Freedom Pass 24-hour scheme covers TfL services (buses, tube, trams and DLR) - so I read that as not the London overground services.

Well the map on that link shows the London Overground (and a few National Rail lines) in orange and says valid 24 hours.

The rest of National rail it shows in red - valid after 0930

dzug1

MrsGrey wrote: »

I am new to the Freedom Pass game ( Happy Birthday Me!) so i have a question for all you grey travellers.
I have been told that if i want to travel out of London, that some liines will charge your rail ticket as though starting from Zone 6, even though you are getting your National Rail train from Zone 1. Thus, you pay for a shorter journey=less.
How does this work? The Nat. Rail site says you have to show your Freedom Pass at the ticket office. Does this mean you have to buy at the station and not online in advance? Surely that means you will pay extra for buying on the day of travel, thus obliterating any gain? ( Not to mention queuing for an hour or so...) Also, does that mean you have to actually go to a station in Zone 6 to buy an "extension ticket"? Very confused... Does anyone know how to work this?

You can only buy tickets from 'boundary zone 6' at a station - they are not sold online. Possibly by phone as well - don't know.

And no, you won't pay extra for buying on the day - they are not advance purchase fares so there would be no saving. They are not available to every station - eg BZ6 to Gatwick would be OK but (I'm guessing) not BZ6 to Manchester.

You should be able to buy them at any station - but I suspect some smaller ones won't have a clue if they rarely if ever sell them.

dzug1

EdInvestor wrote: »

No free travel on ordinary trains - but you get one third off with a senior railcard, and no time restrictions AFAIK.

There are time restrictions on using a senior railcard on National Rail in London and the South East.

http://www.senior-railcard.co.uk/what-is-a-senior-railcard/restrictions

gives details

MrsGrey

Well thanks for all that, dzug 1.
This is all a challenge to the grey cells and working it all out should help to ward off dementia...

dzug1

MrsGrey wrote: »

Well thanks for all that, dzug 1.
This is all a challenge to the grey cells and working it all out should help to ward off dementia...

Or cause it!! :rotfl: