Using Season ticket on a different route?

[WappingWench]

Hi there,

This is my first post here so apologies if the answer to this question is blindingly obvious (I have searched the forum and can't find the answer anywhere else).

As of next week, I will be commuting with my husband from Marden Station in Kent into London Charing Cross - I believe this is the London to Ramsgate line. We will only be taking one car to the station, so occasionally if he is working late, it would be easier for me to go back from London into Maidstone East (I can get a bus back home from there whereas Marden is out in the sticks).

I know it's a long shot, but I wondered if there was any way, either by paying a supplement or whatever, that I could use my Marden-London season ticket to get back to Maidstone East on the Ashford International route instead? Or that my husband could use his season ticket to go from London Bridge to Maidstone East (there are a handful of trains that do that route)?

I'm sure the answer is probably a big fat 'No', but thought I'd ask anyway to see if there was any way around it.

Thank you in advance!

 

[LexyBoy]

A Marden-London ticket (Season or otherwise) is not valid via Ashford International, so you can't use it on its own to Maidstone East.

It is valid as far as Otford, so an Otford-Maidstone East Off Peak Day Single would cover you in the evenings, it's fairly pricey though at £7.30. Alternatively, if Maidstone West is acceptable, Paddock Wood - Maidstone West is £4.20 Anytime single (you'd need to go via Tonbridge).

 

[bb21]

There is definitely a way around it. Can I just clarify one thing please. Do you two both hold a season ticket between London and Marden? If so, does it say whether it is valid on the High Speed line?

 

[hairyhandedfool]

You would have to buy a ticket to or from Otford to get to Maidstone East.

 

[WappingWench]

Thank you for your swift replies - the changing at Paddock Wood option would be fine, as I could actually walk home from Maidstone West, and it is only likely to be on very rare occasions that I would need to get home myself. Thanks for the tip!

We don't actually have our season tickets yet, but we won't be getting ones that are valid on HS1 - not much use to us as we work miles from St Pancras and the cost of commuting is scary enough when we've just got a mortgage, ha!