Are any fares available online only as e-tickets?

[yorkie]

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Trivia: tickets that can *ONLY* be CCST

I was just wondering if anyone knows other tickets that can only be issued as credit card sized tickets (CCST). (or knows alternative formats available for any I have listed) So far, I have the following: Plusbus season tickets (one of the last types of season not on smart card/s ticket...

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...is anyone aware of any fares that are only available as e-tickets, and not as TOD/CCST (ticket on departure on credit card stock)?

 

[Farigiraf]

Are there still paper ticket options for RailSail to Hoek van Holland? Can't say I've ever seen anything other than e-tickets used on this route both in person or on the internet.

 

[CyrusWuff]

Following this thread...

Trivia: tickets that can *ONLY* be CCST

I was just wondering if anyone knows other tickets that can only be issued as credit card sized tickets (CCST). (or knows alternative formats available for any I have listed) So far, I have the following: Plusbus season tickets (one of the last types of season not on smart card/s ticket...

www.railforums.co.uk

...is anyone aware of any fares that are only available as e-tickets, and not as TOD/CCST (ticket on departure on credit card stock)?

Some TOC "Friends and Family" schemes are setup as e-ticket only.

 

[81A]

The GWR Family advance tickets used to not be enabled for ToD (they are now). They were still available for postal fulfilment/ticket office issue (as CCST), though.

 

[mmh]

Following this thread...

Trivia: tickets that can *ONLY* be CCST

I was just wondering if anyone knows other tickets that can only be issued as credit card sized tickets (CCST). (or knows alternative formats available for any I have listed) So far, I have the following: Plusbus season tickets (one of the last types of season not on smart card/s ticket...

www.railforums.co.uk

...is anyone aware of any fares that are only available as e-tickets, and not as TOD/CCST (ticket on departure on credit card stock)?

Transport for Wales Multiflex (a carnet system). Originally M-ticket only, then e-ticket was added to the TFW app. I'd guess other operators might be doing similar with that style of product.

 

[81A]

Not E ticket only, but I think flexi seasons are ITSO (smartcard) or S-ticket only.

 

[Wallsendmag]

Not E ticket only, but I think flexi seasons are ITSO (smartcard) or S-ticket only.

LNER still issue them as eTickets

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ScotRail Flexipasses are ITSO only

 

[sprunt]

Are there still paper ticket options for RailSail to Hoek van Holland? Can't say I've ever seen anything other than e-tickets used on this route both in person or on the internet.

Is there some kind of paper issued to let you complete your journey in the Netherlands? Presumably a UK e-ticket wouldn't be accepted on the Rotterdam metro.

I've not done the route since the line at Hoek was converted to metro - what entitlement for travel in the Netherlands is still part of the ticket. When I did it they gave you two day tickets for NS, which was great, I just bought a ticket from the machine at Hoek and used the day tickets for travelling on other days.

 

[A S Leib]

Is there some kind of paper issued to let you complete your journey in the Netherlands? Presumably a UK e-ticket wouldn't be accepted on the Rotterdam metro.

I've not done the route since the line at Hoek was converted to metro - what entitlement for travel in the Netherlands is still part of the ticket. When I did it they gave you two day tickets for NS, which was great, I just bought a ticket from the machine at Hoek and used the day tickets for travelling on other days.

It no longer includes any travel on the Dutch end.

 

[saismee]

Hare Fares? I don't think they were able to be fulfilled to ToD.

 

[redreni]

This is going back maybe 7 or 8 years, but I remember being at Birmingham New St and trying to buy a single to Nottingham from a TVM, which was happy to show me XC Advance fares but couldn't sell them, saying they were online only. Ticket office couldn't sell them either.

I got it as an e-ticket wich I think was the only fulfilment method offered, though I couldn't swear to it. I remember because it was the first e-ticket I ever bought and it took about 15 minutes for the email to come through with the actual ticket - another two minutes and I'd have missed the train.

 

[Wallsendmag]

This is going back maybe 7 or 8 years, but I remember being at Birmingham New St and trying to buy a single to Nottingham from a TVM, which was happy to show me XC Advance fares but couldn't sell them, saying they were online only. Ticket office couldn't sell them either.

I got it as an e-ticket wich I think was the only fulfilment method offered, though I couldn't swear to it. I remember because it was the first e-ticket I ever bought and it took about 15 minutes for the email to come through with the actual ticket - another two minutes and I'd have missed the train.

The XC restriction was their site only nothing to do with fulfilment.

 

[James H]

Seatfrog Secret Fares come to mind

 

[smsm1]

ScotRail Flexipasses are ITSO only

I've just checked in the ScotRail app and you can fulfill the flexi as mobile or Smartcard.

 

[pokemonsuper9]

Northern's Super League Day Ranger might be e-ticket only.
That's how it was fulfilled to me via the app, never tried via the website so not sure if the option for TOD is there.

 

[teaspoon]

Are there still paper ticket options for RailSail to Hoek van Holland? Can't say I've ever seen anything other than e-tickets used on this route both in person or on the internet.

unless it's changed in the last year, if you book a single from Hoek to 'any Greater Anglia station', you don't even get a ticket - your ferry booking confirmation acts as, I guess, an authority to travel. Though having done it a few times I don't remember encountering a ticket inspector on that journey.

 

[saismee]

unless it's changed in the last year, if you book a single from Hoek to 'any Greater Anglia station', you don't even get a ticket - your ferry booking confirmation acts as, I guess, an authority to travel. Though having done it a few times I don't remember encountering a ticket inspector on that journey.

It states it must be printed out to act as your ticket but a lot of people don't. I think they're niche enough to not really matter.

 

[kijeta]

LNWR's 50% off deals are e-ticket only - which I "protested" by simply printing them into (recycled) paper.

 

[Wallsendmag]

I've just checked in the ScotRail app and you can fulfill the flexi as mobile or Smartcard.

Sorry was thinking from a Station angle.

 

[duncan788]

Seatfrog Secret Fares come to mind

Oh yeah, this makes me think about the Avanti Superfare ticket, which can only be obtained via email as a PDF.

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Not an actual ticket for sale, but the Railway200 museum free ticket is also only on QR code e-ticket. The code is only 5 characters long, shorter than the usual 6-character code on regular selling tickets, but it still works to pass through the station barriers and grant entry at the railway 200 train museum's designated time slot.