Cheap Train Tickets - Combination Season

EllyW

I've been buying a weekly combination season ticket for the last few months(Sarn - Bridgend, Bridgend - Cardiff) - which costs me £21.50 per week, compared to a through season ticket which costs around £30.

This morning the conductor told me this was classed as "fraudulent travel" but agreed to sell me the ticket combination anyway.

Can anyone please enlighten me as to whether what I'm doing is allowed or not? - I don't want to get caught out in future, but I strongly suspect it's a ploy by Arriva Trains Wales to get people to buy their more expensive fares (the reason it's cheaper to do a combo is because the Bridgend-Cardiff part is offered by First Great Western and can be used on both FGW and ATW services).

dzug

As long as the train on which you travel stops at Bridgend, then it's perfectly legitimate. The conductor is wrong.

ticketcollector

as Dzug has said as long as the train stops at Bridgend then this is legal travel.

In a dreamworld........
You got on at Sarn with ticket A and then traveled to Bridgend.
So whats to say you got off the train at Bridgend and magicly plucked Ticket B out of the air and then traveled from Bridgend - Cardiff on the same train????

Back to the real world....
Its perfectly allowed as long as train stops at Bridgend

19. Using a combination of tickets
You may use two or more tickets for one journey as long as together they cover the entire journey and one of the following applies:
(a) they are both Zonal Tickets (unless special conditions prohibit their use);
(b) the train you are in calls at the station where you change from one ticket to another; or
(c) one of the tickets is a Season Ticket (which for this purpose does not include Season Tickets or travel passes issued on behalf of a passenger transport executive or local authority) or a leisure travel pass, and the other ticket(s) is/are not.