London Travelcard rules

t0rt0ise

KevinG wrote: »

But there is no "wrong direction" on a Travelcard, wrong starting station perhaps.

Yes there is a wrong direction. The ticket is basically a normal train ticket from a to b with a London travelcard thrown in. That's why it's only available into London. You can't use it to go away from London.

bubieyehyeh

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Yes there is a wrong direction. The ticket is basically a normal train ticket from a to b with a London travelcard thrown in. That's why it's only available into London. You can't use it to go away from London.

You are wrong. Its a RETURN ticket from A to London including a travel card. So you can use the it go away from London (for your return journey).



You can make the return journey out of London without having used it to travel into London.

Cornucopia

The question is not so much "is it valid?", but more, "if it is valid, why does the journey planner not show it?"

yorkie2

martindow wrote: »

Travelcard tickets from my local station are a single piece of card - there is no return portion. I don't imagine that the ticket machines record the journey details or show that the first use is not at Crawley, or if this would be an issue in any case.

Yes an out-boundary Travelcard is a single piece of card. But it consists of two elements rolled into one product; a Travelcard and return travel from origin to [the boundary of] Zone 6*.

(* Some also include the out-boundary Zones 7, 8 & 9; where this is the casem tickets will be marked "AAA Zones 7-9")

t0rt0ise wrote: »

Yes there is a wrong direction. The ticket is basically a normal train ticket from a to b with a London travelcard thrown in. That's why it's only available into London. You can't use it to go away from London.

You could use it to go towards the origin printed on the ticket; you just can't [legally] use it to get back from origin to London.

bubieyehyeh wrote: »

You are wrong. Its a RETURN ticket from A to London including a travel card. So you can use the it go away from London (for your return journey).

You can make the return journey out of London without having used it to travel into London.

Agreed.

Jumblebumble

yorkie2 wrote: »

Yes an out-boundary Travelcard is a single piece of card. But it consists of two elements rolled into one product; a Travelcard and return travel from origin to [the boundary of] Zone 6*.

(* Some also include the out-boundary Zones 7, 8 & 9; where this is the casem tickets will be marked "AAA Zones 7-9")



You could use it to go towards the origin printed on the ticket; you just can't [legally] use it to get back from origin to London.

Agreed.

Of course
no one could suggest that if you had this ticket and someone gave you a lift into london you would not be able to return home.

KevinG

Well the deed is done, I've bought the tickets, two Travelcards, thanks everyone.