Discounted train travel for Network Rail staff?

[dave4jackie]

Do network rail staff get a discount on train travel if they show there pts card

 

[the sniper]

Officially, no. Unofficially, they might sometimes get a nod and a wink for a free ride, depending on who's doing the tickets.

 

[Llanigraham]

I wish!!
A lot of NR staff don't have PTS cards either, including we signallers.

 

[cjp]

Do network rail staff get a discount on train travel if they show there pts card

PTS =
Permit?
Train?
Safety?

or what?

Perhaps these nice Forum people will put together a list of such railway abbreviations - I did try to look it up

PTS Points
PTS Practical Test Standards
PTS Parts
PTS Parking and Transportation Services
PTS Patients
PTS Princeton Theological Seminary (New Jersey)
PTS Post- och Telestyrelsen (Sweden)
PTS Post-Thrombotic Syndrome (deep vein thrombosis)
PTS Persistent Toxic Substances (environment)
PTS Put to Sleep
PTS peseta
PTS Potential Trouble Source (Scientology)
PTS Permanent Threshold Shift
PTS Presentation Time Stamps (MPEG systems)
PTS Pi-Tau-Sigma (Mechanical Engineering Honor Society)
PTS Perguruan Tinggi Swasta (Indonesian private university)
PTS Police Technique et Scientifique (French: Forensic Scientist)
PTS Port Said (Egyptian automobile license plate)
PTS Pressurized Thermal Shock
PTS Personal Track Safety (railway)
PTS Proprietary Trading System
PTS Project Tracking System
PTS Patient Transport Service
PTS Problem Tracking System
PTS Pyruvoyltetrahydropterin Synthase
PTS 6-Pyruvoyltetrahydropterin Synthase
PTS Prime Time Sports (Toronto Area TV & Radio Sports Talk Show)
PTS Pseudo Terminal Slave
PTS Personal Trainer Specialist
PTS Philatelic Traders Society (England)
PTS Pneumatic Tube System
PTS Post-Traumatic Syndrome
PTS Party of Work and Solidarity (Cape Verde)
PTS Positive Train Separation
PTS Partial Transmit Sequence
PTS Pediatric Trauma Score
PTS Production Tracking System
PTS Protocol Type Selection (ISO)
PTS Personnel Tracking System
PTS Phystechsoft Ltd (disk operating system makers)
PTS Penilaian Tahap Satu (Malaysia education)
PTS Pass-Through Security
PTS Property Tax Software
PTS Permit Tracking System
PTS Platinum Travel Service (American Express)
PTS Progress Tracking System
PTS Passport To Safety (UK)
PTS Precision Technology Supplies, Ltd (Sussex, England)
PTS Photofragment Translational Spectroscopy
PTS Palmer Trinity School
PTS Photothermal Spectroscopy
PTS Per-Trunk Signaling
PTS Player Tracking System
PTS Procurement Tracking System
PTS Passive Treatment System
PTS Precise Timing Station
PTS Permission to Sue
PTS Portable Training System
PTS Purchaser Technical Specification
PTS Product Test System
PTS Particular Technical Specification
PTS Phrase Translation System
PTS Proposal Tracking System
PTS Performance Training Series (banking)
PTS Photo-Type Setting
PTS Performance Technical Specifications (construction)
PTS Projectile Tracking System
PTS Pesticide Treated Sphere
PTS Packet Time Slot
PTS Parallel Transaction System (IBM)
PTS Precision Tracking System
PTS Population Transfer Spectroscopy
PTS Pure True Sharing

 

[Nym]

Personal Track Safety

 

[Zoidberg]

Personal Track Safety

Thank you. I, too, was wondering.

It's very easy to slip IUA* which can baffle the uninitiated.

* Into Using Abbreviations.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

The only discount non-priv Network Rail staff get is a 75% discount on a season ticket to their place of work, but even this comes with conditions.

The idea of giving all Network Rail staff priv facilities on leisure travel crops up every year but has always been rejected on grounds of cost.

 

[455driver]

SWT tried to give the NR staff free travel (on SWT) when the "Alliance" started up but it was blocked by NR as it woulld be unfair when nobody else in the Country gets it.

With an employer like that who needs enemies.

 

[Llanigraham]

And we are regularly told that if caught and reported for travelling without a ticket it's a "severe chat with no tea or biscuits!!"

 

[AlexS]

SWT tried to give the NR staff free travel (on SWT) when the "Alliance" started up but it was blocked by NR as it woulld be unfair when nobody else in the Country gets it.

With an employer like that who needs enemies.

I'm fairly sure NR staff in the appropriate area do get free travel on SWT - I've seen an NR free travel on SWT pass that is in date as recently as 7 days ago.

 

[Llanigraham]

Unofficially, possibly.

 

[Mojo]

Unfortunately one of the downsides of the fragmented railway where many of the people doing the work get naff all, whilst some organisations outside of the railway industry find themselves being given, albeit limited, discounts. I do feel sorry for Network Rail staff, particularly those non-safeguarded who used to work for Tocs and then found themselves transferred over and losing the travel passes.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think even the 75% rebate is taxable, meaning in reality it's worth somewhere in the mid-50s discount for a lower rate taxpayer.

 

[Pumbaa]

SWT tried to give the NR staff free travel (on SWT) when the "Alliance" started up but it was blocked by NR as it woulld be unfair when nobody else in the Country gets it.

With an employer like that who needs enemies.

There are working passes - given out quite freely I'd imagine. The opposition was cost based; it would lead to similar arrangements being asked for country over. To get around this, and entry to the ATOC scheme, SWT offered to give it free, but NR decided it would cause them more grief than solve.

Can't say I blame them to be honest.

 

[Pumbaa]

And we are regularly told that if caught and reported for travelling without a ticket it's a "severe chat with no tea or biscuits!!"

There have been a few heavy duty briefings about this on the SWR over the last few months. One too many taking the mick I suspect is the root cause, rather than manglement getting their knickers in a twist.