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Hi, I’m planning to travel Brighton-London Bridge next saturday for a social event. This means I can use a thameslink only ticket - significantly cheaper at the weekend than southern. In recent years I’ve been using KeyGo ie payg, and always been charged correctly. It has the benefit of...

@MrJeeves Thanks for the reply. As a techie, In part the email was an outlet of frustration over the ticket fragmentation - particularly in terms of formats that can be used (as opposed to pricing), where I see stations have rfid readers & barcode scanners. Smartcards in particular fell way...

I have a gtr key Smartcard. Key go is active which works great for journeys Brighton-London etc (but no travel card) . No thinking ahead, railcard included. I also have a swr railcard where I could also add payg. Today I needed to travel portslade-Portsmouth. I can’t use payg as some options...

Good news (and somewhat surprising?), but I guess for me it will come down to what the 'small increase' is. It's about £5 less for a travelcard than return+z1-2 daily cap (more for other zones). My guess is a £1-2 increase.

Yes I have. This also also affects ticket office/TVM After reading some more recent comments, I suspect this is specific to the super off peak thameslink only - not available due to gateline programming?

In Brighton I may want plusbus to apply locally, as part of my rail journey. GTR's 'keygo' works great for this as I can tap it in/out on the bus, and in/out on the train and it charges the correct plusbus far. If not train component it will charge the correct capped bus fare. Works super...

A very specific case, but if using Thamelink 'keygo' PAYG option, the railcard is linked, and then one travels as normal, with discounts automatically applied. Works great, within the limitations of - can't use on underground/bus in london - only for GTR stations (mostly) - can't use split...

I bought a discounted railcard with trainpal. I just tried the iOS app. First I turned the phone into airplane mode. Launched the trainpal app, and was able to show the railcard just fine

This irks me too. Each time we decide to take a leisure trip to London (from Brighton) at the weekend we'll typically have to buy a PAPER travelcard. It's a great price (thameslink only, super off peak, zones 1-6) but it seems to be 50/50 on whether the ticket is still readable by the end of the...

presumably the argument about not allowing *brand* specific pricing, could just as easily be used to justify the removal of 'thameslink only' pricing (very nice, especially for day trips brighton-london), as for being able to use GX. Personally? I'd rather keep the thameslink only....!

I live in Brighton and do visit London, so a question on this. The usual route would be via St Pancras, but a direct route is slightly cheaper ( super off peak, and off peak) at least assuming the thameslink route. Are there other London destinations around Victoria/further west where this...

I have a eurostar journey booked in January. I’ll be travelling from Brighton, and usually just get a ticket on the day (or use my smart card payg). With strikes looming, I’m considering getting the brighton-london CIV ticket, thinking this might make any refunds/delays easier to manage (though...

Apologies I'm not familiar with all the terminology - but WebTIS would be used when purchasing from many details/TOCs online? I had wondered if I could buy a travel card online, and then load it onto the key smart card via phone (iOS) but not found any specific way to do that yet? The reference...

@MrJeeves thanks - one clarification on my travel card case : a) The thameslink super off peak travel card is not available via tvm or office it seems b) specifically having keygo dynamically add a travel card, as it does for pluses, would be amazing ...

Or in my case small stations like Brighton and London Bridge - my morning journey didn't register at all!! Full-on functioning gatelines 1661067131 So as an update on my saturday journey -by tuesday still no complete, but I checked today, 8 days later, and now all the details are correct and up...

So my journeys mostly resolved overnight, picking up my evening return to Brighton, and evening bus journey. Still no tap in OR tap out for the journey in to london. Fare-wise we’re only £0.05 out now (single vs return), and no incomplete journey shown. I’m intrigued to see if the other journey...

Any recommendations for an app that would show the same on iOS. Could be useful to check when travelling?

I got ticket checked using keygo a month or two back. The guard had to go back to get a different device (not phone?) and was perfectly happy, presumably as long as keygo is valid that’s fine (and I had tapped in) 1660502573 I do wish there was a mobile app that would let me see my tap-ins in...

I have a KeyGo smart card from Thameslink which I find useful for the following kinds of journeys - plusBus in Brighton (my origin) + return to other thameslink stations especially central London, as I can use on bus directly without getting a ticket first - journeys where my return station...

Overall Brighton is pretty good for public transport in frequency. Less so for daytime journey times. I’m an hours walk away from the centre and last normal bus from Center is around 00:25 min-sat. But then there’s three more night buses until around 0330. Trains also crazy with expensive...