I tried to buy some Day Travelcards for travel next month from Cambridge today and was told that unlike normal NR tickets, these are normally only sold for dates up to a week in advance. Is this a condition of the ticket or was it just some TOC sales guidance or something?
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Buying Day Travelcards in Advance
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What a daft rule; given you can buy them online for as long as their booking horizons extend. It's no surprise people are avoiding booking offices if in addition to the staff being obstructive, the Tocs have also made up some pretty silly rules themselves. (One wonders if this is to get people to avoid using them).
Out of interest, what's the situation if one attempts to purchase a travelcard with a railcard discount? I used to try to buy my travelcards a couple of days in advance when I commuted to uni, as I needed to catch a bus to get to the station in the morning, necessitating that I had the travelcard on me when leaving home. South West Trains and NXEA were always happy to sell me the tickets, but South Eastern always said they couldn't except for one specific clerk at New Cross. If I recall correctly, they said that I couldn't buy them in advance because of the railcard, hence the question.
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