Off peak return - any restrictions?

[Western Sunset]

Hello, my daughter is getting in a tiz. She has an off-peak return ticket (wih 26/30 railcar)Tunbridge Wells to Basingstoke. She travlled down on Saturday and wants to return this evning - leaving BSK around 1700. travelling via Watrloo. Are there any time restrictions. She's got it into her head that she can't travel between 1600 and 1900, but I think its OK. Are there restictions? THanks

 

[Haywain]

Are there restictions?

Yes, not valid on trains timed to depart after 04:29 and before 09:30.

 

[Western Sunset]

Yes, not valid on trains timed to depart after 04:29 and before 09:30.

But is she OK to travl across London in tnights evening peak?

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

Hello, my daughter is getting in a tiz. She has an off-peak return ticket (wih 26/30 railcar)Tunbridge Wells to Basingstoke. She travlled down on Saturday and wants to return this evning - leaving BSK around 1700. travelling via Watrloo. Are there any time restrictions. She's got it into her head that she can't travel between 1600 and 1900, but I think its OK. Are there restictions? THanks

As far as I can tell, the only restriction is on trains before 0930.
Evening restrictions apply if you use trains from Paddington or Reading, but not if travelling via Waterloo.

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[Haywain]

But is she OK to travl across London in tnights evening peak?

I have just given you the entirety of the restriction wording. The answer is obvious.

 

[Western Sunset]

Thanks both. She is v stubbon and read this on the National Rail site thinking she' need a new ticket...

• "Evening peak times apply 16:00 to 19:00, Monday to Friday, from or via a London station for journeys where pay as you go with contactless is available"
  
  Hopefully I can reassure her...
  

 

[Bletchleyite]

That line is a bit misleading or incomplete, it's true of pairs of stations where both are in the Project Oval area (and some others) but not of ALL journeys via a station where contactless is available.

 

[Western Sunset]

I think having a ticket that says "off-peak" and then seeing that 1600-1900 is "peak" might confuse some folks. It confused my daughter...

 

[pelli]

You could reassure her by showing that journey planners offer the Off-Peak Return for a journey Tunbridge Wells - Basingstoke going out at 1700 today and returning 1700 tomorrow:
https://ticket.southeasternrailway....SK/2026-03-12T17:00/2026-03-13T17:00/1//TSTx1

 

[Western Sunset]

Thanks Pelli.

 

[30907]

That line is a bit misleading or incomplete, it's true of pairs of stations where both are in the Project Oval area (and some others) but not of ALL journeys via a station where contactless is available.

That's not the same as:

• "Evening peak times apply 16:00 to 19:00, Monday to Friday, from or via a London station for journeys where pay as you go with contactless is available"

because a station is not a journey. AFAIK TWC and BSK are not yet contactless.