Young Persons Railcard

wendy_ann1983

hi, something I only realised recently (after having a YPR for 6yrs) you can get a reduced price off-peak travelcard.

Take your card to any London Underground ticket office after 09:30am or any time at the weekend and you can get a zones 1-6 card for approx £4.80 instead of £6.30, this means you can then use this to travel on the overground trains within the zones and if you wish to travel outside the zones you only get charged from the last station in zone 6 that you pass through (i'm 90% certain on this last point best to ask when you but it to make sure)

Wish i'd known this years ago, I'd have saved soooo much

John_Davros_Cooper

Oh I've been doing this since I got here. That said some stations are picky over whether it is after half nine or half ten that they will sell you the ticket. If the person won't sell the machine outside usualy does!

regards
John

wendy_ann1983

none f the underground tickets issue the discount cards and underground off peak is after 930, you can normally buy from 915 if you find a nice clerk but you wont be able to use the ticket till 930

isasmurf

wendy_ann1983 wrote:

this means you can then use this to travel on the overground trains within the zones and if you wish to travel outside the zones you only get charged from the last station in zone 6 that you pass through (i'm 90% certain on this last point best to ask when you but it to make sure)

If you have any kind of travelcard, be it 1 day or a season ticket then if you wish to travel outside it's validity on NR then you ask for a ticket from the boundary of the zone which your travelcard covers.

So, if you had a Z1-6 travelcard you would get a ticket from Boundary Zone 6 to wherever you were going.

The only exception is that if you have a 1 day travelcard the train company you are travelling with must operate at stations within your travelcard zones (with the exception of terminating stations). So for example, you can't a Boundary extension on a 1 day travelcard travelling on Virgin or GNER.

klone_2

wendy_ann1983 wrote:

hi, something I only realised recently (after having a YPR for 6yrs) you can get a reduced price off-peak travelcard.

Take your card to any London Underground ticket office after 09:30am or any time at the weekend and you can get a zones 1-6 card for approx £4.80 instead of £6.30, this means you can then use this to travel on the overground trains within the zones and if you wish to travel outside the zones you only get charged from the last station in zone 6 that you pass through (i'm 90% certain on this last point best to ask when you but it to make sure)

Wish i'd known this years ago, I'd have saved soooo much

Hi, what tube station are you buying the discounted ticket from?

I read that you could only get a discounted travelcard if purchased from an overground station or tube station that overground train stations also serve.

14. Can I use my Railcard for tickets for travel on the London Underground? All discounted rail tickets bought using your Railcard routed 'between London termini' are valid for cross-London transfer on the London Underground. Off-Peak Day Travelcards (All Zones only) are also available, subject to a minimum fare. Please note, however, that you cannot use your Railcard to obtain a discount when purchasing tickets from a London Underground booking office

wendy_ann1983

klone wrote:

Hi, what tube station are you buying the discounted ticket from?

I read that you could only get a discounted travelcard if purchased from an overground station or tube station that overground train stations also serve.

14. Can I use my Railcard for tickets for travel on the London Underground? All discounted rail tickets bought using your Railcard routed 'between London termini' are valid for cross-London transfer on the London Underground. Off-Peak Day Travelcards (All Zones only) are also available, subject to a minimum fare. Please note, however, that you cannot use your Railcard to obtain a discount when purchasing tickets from a London Underground booking office

Maybe only a few of the ticket sellers have actually read the HUGE manual and found that they aren't supposed to sell them but most will sell you anything. All the actual office computers have the facility to sell discounted travelcards. But the machines don't.

As long as your overground ticket states that it is valid to the zone you are travelling to then you are fine, for instance if you wanted to go brighton to leicester square and your ticket said From Bighton, To Zone 1* then you have a valid card, however if it says To London Terminal* you may be liable to an extra fair as this only covers you to Victoria or other such terminals.

None of the stations I work at are terminals but we still sell the Y-P travel cards, we even do a restricted number of cheap day returns that are Y-P eligable.

Hope that helps, if not feel free to ask more, I can always check with others at work too make sure.

wendy_ann1983

my mistake, I checked today and no underground stations don't do the Y-P singles/returns, its just the 1-6 Travelcard

klone_2

Thanks for the reply,

I knew you could get a Y-P travelcard at a tube station where theres a overground service (eg: ealing broadway, kentish town, walthamstow etc)

I just thought you could only get the railcard discount with national rail issued travelcards, and as i live near no national rail station and just a tube station i didn't think it was possible.

Worth a try i guess

coral

If you do a search for a return journey from London to Tattenham corner after 10am on qjump or virgin trains (not trainline - charges a fee) it will give you the option to purchase a one day travelcard with the discount for 4.80 which you can have posted out for free - ideal if you start your journey at a non-national rail tube station.

klone_2

Good suggestion there, thanks.