Family Railcard for £10 (Half Price)

MSE_Martin

16 October 2007

What's this about?

It's possible to buy the Family Railcard for £10, half the normal price of £20. The railcard lasts 12 months and gives a third off many adult fares and 60% off childrens' fares throughout Great Britain.

To use the railcard at least one child and one adult must travel although up to four adults and four children can go, plus there's no need for them all to be related. For the purposes of the family railcard a child is aged between 5 and 15 years.

This means even if you're just doing one big journey in the year in these conditions, the purchase price of the ticket should easily be saved.

What should I do?

Simply go to the Family Railcard website, complete the application form and in the promotional code box enter either of these two codes: FRACXG10 or FREXPN10. Offer ends 31 October (Having been in touch with National Rail it has now approved the use of these codes)

Are there any restrictions on use?

The railcard can't be used during peak times Monday to Friday if the journey is entirely in the London or Southeast area.

One advantage of the card (as pointed out by MoneySavers below) is it also has a discount offers scheme for certain hotels & trips.

Any other ways to save on train fares

Yep, just read the Cheap Train Tickets article


PS This post has been added to the discussion to give a more detailed researched summary. Thank you very much to MoneySaver bella4uk for starting it off (see below).

bella4uk

Buy here before oct 31st
https://www.railcards-online.co.uk/Family.do
and use code FRACXG10 to obtain discount :j

parkemitch

Thanks for this!! :T

Vanda2

Brilliant, I've just ordered mine What a saving :j :j :j thanks!!

Horlock

Why do they make you register before they will tell you the price? Or even what discount you get.
(a long time ago it used to be 33% off plus children travel for £1 so cheaper for 2 to travel than 1 on most journeys)

bootman

I forgot to renew my free one with the mail. I am glad I did now as its only cost £10 now.

obsessednewbie

Superb Offer! Thanks ever so much for this! :T

~Chameleon~

I ordered mine last week

jimjam10

wicked! ordered mine for £10, that will pay for itself on first trip (family of 5!)

surrobeth

Thank you, I've been thinking about getting one for a while but this has decided it.

Contains_Mild_Peril

Thanks for that. I got a half price one even though my current one doesn't expire till December. If I now renew around the same date for the next couple of years I'll get extra value for money, since my DS's birthday is 21st Oct but a family railcard purchased before he turns 16 will still entitle us to discounts for the rest of the year even if he's 16 for most of it!