Railcard minimum fare on Travelcard

[lyesbkz]

Hi

Would the £12 minimum fare apply to a paper off-peak day travelcard when using my 16-25 railcard? (If I have a Zone 1-6 travelcard priced at 5.90, can I really not use it before 10am?)

Cheers

 

[David Goddard]

Yes it would. If the Travelcard is only £5.90 then the discount of £1.48 isn't really that much to lose sleep over. I mean you can barely buy a cup of tea with that these days (except in Wetherspoons)
You are lucky that this minimum fare only applies until 10am, AND you get two months of grace in the summer.
Those of us with Network cards have a £13 minimum fare all day on all working weekdays, and cant use ours at all until 10:00

 

[MikeWh]

Hi

Would the £12 minimum fare apply to a paper off-peak day travelcard when using my 16-25 railcard? (If I have a Zone 1-6 travelcard priced at 5.90, can I really not use it before 10am?)

Cheers

Yes it does. But, if you have your discount loaded on an Oyster card then you can start getting discounted singles and the off-peak cap at 0930. Plus the discounted cap varies depending on the zones, so 1-6 is £5.60, 1-4 is £5.10 and 1-2 is only £4.60.
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Yes it would. If the Travelcard is only £5.90 then the discount of £1.48 ...

The undiscounted travelcard is £8.90. Not quite sure what £1.48 is?

 

[island]

Yes, to get the £3 discount on a zone 1-6 off-peak day Travelcard with a 16-25 Railcard, you need to wait an extra 30 minutes from when it would otherwise become valid on weekdays between September and June inclusive.

 

[alex17595]

Its seems very strange, I have one from Tuesday 28th may and it cost me £5.90. I brought this from the ticket clerk at 9:44 according to the ticket.


Should I have been charged £12?

 

[maniacmartin]

You are fine buying it at 09:44 but you can't actually use it until 10am. Most clerks will warn you about this, and most TVMs will refuse to sell the ticket at that price until 10am

 

[alex17595]

The barriers don't seem to stop it being used though.

 

[island]

The barriers don't seem to stop it being used though.

Barriers passing or not passing a ticket should not be deemed as meaningful

 

[maniacmartin]

Besides, you might want to pass through a barrier before 10am in order to be ready on the platform for a 10:00 departure

 

[alex17595]

I've errr learnt my lesson

 

[David Goddard]

The undiscounted travelcard is £8.90. Not quite sure what £1.48 is?

Sorry, I read the post to mean that the original (full price) travelcard was £5.90, therefore 1/3 off would be 1.48, (OK so I did a crude calculation and forgot that they go to the nearest 5p), not that £5.90 was the already discounted fare.

 

[IanD]

Besides, you might want to pass through a barrier before 10am in order to be ready on the platform for a 10:00 departure

You can't pass through the barriers before 9:30 to be on a platform for a 9:30 departure though. I think barriers should be programmed to let you through before 9:30 by the amount it would take the average person to get to the platform.