Overlapping Two Together railcards (hypothetical)

[JoeM1V]

A, B and C are travelling together.

A and B hold a Two Together railcard. A and C also hold a Two Together railcard. (It is explicitly permitted to hold multiple Two Together railcards with different people.)

Can A, B and C all purchase and travel with Two Together railcard-discounted tickets?

 

[sot]

Second to this, what would happen if A has a card with B, B with C and C with A.

I am looking forward to hearing if someome can shine light on it. I wonder if there is something listed on the knowledge base, also wonder about how it would apply to disabled persons Railcard.

 

[BenS123]

The only semi-relevant information I can see on the knowledgebase page for the Two Together Railcard is this (under 'size of group')

Both named cardholders must start and end their journey together.

 

[transplanted]

Doesn't seem to say you can't on the T&C's but you can't buy a single ticket with a ttrc you have to buy 2 for each Railcard (you can test this online) so you won't get any benefit.

 

[miklcct]

Doesn't seem to say you can't on the T&C's but you can't buy a single ticket with a ttrc you have to buy 2 for each Railcard (you can test this online) so you won't get any benefit.

Isn't it possible to buy 3?

 

[Wallsendmag]

Doesn't seem to say you can't on the T&C's but you can't buy a single ticket with a ttrc you have to buy 2 for each Railcard (you can test this online) so you won't get any benefit.

Ticket office systems can sell a single Two Together discounted ticket

 

[Watershed]

Isn't it possible to buy 3?

Some sites (e.g. TrainSplit) will refuse to let you search for 3 adults with a Two Together Railcard. Others (e.g. ATOS MixingDeck based ones, i.e. most of the FirstGroup TOCs) will return results for 2 Railcard-discounted tickets and one undiscounted ticket.

I can't say what exactly a TVM would do, but I'd expect it would be much the same as the above. Realistically I think the only way you can buy three Two Together discounted tickets at once would be to go to a ticket office and hope they're willing and able to do so.

Coming back to the original question, I don't see that there is anything in the T&Cs that disallow this, but it's more a practical question of whether you can actually buy three such tickets.

 

[Haywain]

Ticket office systems can sell a single Two Together discounted ticket

Whether ticket office staff would do so is another matter.