Something interesting in the FPPP page on Season Tickets is the following:
FRPP said:
Using Season Tickets or Travelcards in conjunction with other tickets
The National Rail Conditions of Carriage (Condition 19) allows a customer to use two or more tickets to travel on one journey, provided that one of the following applies:
· they are both zonal tickets (i.e. valid to any of a group of stations in a zone) unless special conditions prohibit their use;
· the intended train calls at the station(s) where they change from using one ticket to another;
· one of the tickets is a Season Ticket, or a Travelcard Season Ticket (but not one issued by a Passenger Transport Executive or Local Authority) or a leisure travel pass and one of them is not. Restrictions limiting the use of any ticket to specific Train Company's trains are observed.
The National Rail Conditions of Carriage as posted on the National Rail website (
www.nationalrail.co.uk/system/galleries/download/misc/NRCOC.pdf ) does not include, in the third bullet point:
"or a Travelcard Season Ticket".
The official version on the National Rail website thus only states for the third bullet point:
"one of the tickets is a Season Ticket (which for this purpose does not include Season Tickets or travel passes issued on behalf of a passenger transport executive or local authority) or a leisure travel pass, and the other ticket(s) is/are not."
This is also interesting because, it is not just a case of not updating it from the last NRCoC change in 2006. The previous version of the NRCoC contained exactly the same wording for the third bullet point as the current one.
However the NRCoC does define a season ticket as follows:
NRCoC said:
(n) “Season Ticket” means a ticket (including an Electronic Ticket) which allows you to travel for a period of 7 consecutive days or longer and will have one or more of the following characteristics:
(i) it shows the word “Season”;
(ii) it shows the word “Travelcard”;
(iii) it is endorsed with a photocard number;
So in effect the quote on the FRPP was not incorrect or adding any additional validity, just rejigging the wording within the document.
I was therefore incorrect in my previous assessment of defining TfL as either a PTE or Local Authority. Having reread a topic on uk.railway (
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk...assenger+transport+executive#0d8260baaad45b26) it is made clear exactly why TfL is neither.