Season ticket validity

[tombarker1]

Hi there - if be grateful for advice as to whether a route is valid. I'd like to buy a season ticket from my home station of Streatham Common to Vauxhall. Would this ticket also be valid to Battersea Park? I ask as the walk to my office is pretty much equidistant from both stations to my office.

Trainsplit appears to think there is a valid route from Streatham Common to Vauxhall via Battersea Park (it does not charge any extra for a single or return ticket), but I wondered whether this would be the same for a season ticket. Thanks in advance!

 

[miklcct]

You can use Queenstown Road (Battersea) which is on the route to Vauxhall. I will leave to others to advise if the tickets between Battersea Park / Queenstown Road are interavailable.

 

[akm]

Weirdly, when I use trainline to ask for Streatham Common to Vauxhall via Battersea Park, it actually returns me an itinerary which doesn't go to Battersea Park at all (which kinda makes sense, since it's hard to see how that would be possible). Are you getting an itinerary that actually goes to Battersea Park?

 

[tombarker1]

Thanks so much - yes, as per the attachment. I have to put Battersea Park as a 'via' station in Trainsplit.

 

[Jan Mayen]

Would a Travelcard covering Zones 2 & 3 be an option? I believe it covers both stations and is 50p per week more.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Would a Travelcard covering Zones 2 & 3 be an option? I believe it covers both stations and is 50p per week more.

£30.50 per week vs £30.10 per week? However, doesn't the point-to-point season ticket work out cheaper (per week) if bought for periods of 4 weeks/1 month or more?

 

[tombarker1]

Thanks so much for everyone's helpful replies. Yes, Mcr Warrior has hit the nail on the head. The annual point to point season ticket is c. £600, almost half the price of the relevant travelcard. Which is why it would be useful to understand the ticket's validity.

 

[Jan Mayen]

Oops. I was looking at the 1st class Via London season ticket and Zone 2&3 1st class.

Sorry

 

[fandroid]

Am I correct in thinking that Vauxhall is regarded as a London Terminal? So tickets to there from the south would be valid to Victoria too? Battersea Park would involve stopping short on a journey to Victoria, so would be valid. This is speculation on my part, not solid advice, but better informed others might be able to confirm or trash the notion.

Edit:
I have had another look at BR Fares. It definitely states that point to point season tickets are "Issued to London Terminals" for the Streatham Common to Vauxhall route

 

[MichaelAMW]

I'm not sure why you think you can go via Battersea Park to Vauxhall, as you would have to double back to/from Clapham Junction. It seems to me that the options are either a Zones 2 & 3 Travelcard or a Streatham Common - London point-to-point season, which as mentioned already cost about the same. For half the price it's a point-to-point season to Vauxhall.

 

[fandroid]

The objective of the OP is not to do the journey you @MichaelAMW have described, but to either travel to Vauxhall or to Battersea Park. A London Terminals ticket should allow either.

 

[Starmill]

Am I correct in thinking that Vauxhall is regarded as a London Terminal? So tickets to there from the south would be valid to Victoria too?

Vauxhall is a member of London Terminals, yes. If the ticket is to Vauxhall specifically, rather than London Terminals, of course that doesn't really make much of a difference.

 

[30907]

Vauxhall is a member of London Terminals, yes. If the ticket is to Vauxhall specifically, rather than London Terminals, of course that doesn't really make much of a difference.

The London Terminals season has much wider validity across South London than the point-to-point to Vauxhall only.
Incidentally, two point-to-point seasons (the second being CLJ-BAK) are slightly cheaper than the London Terminals one.

 

[MichaelAMW]

The objective of the OP is not to do the journey you @MichaelAMW have described, but to either travel to Vauxhall or to Battersea Park. A London Terminals ticket should allow either.

Yes, I appreciate that - I got the impression that they were thinking a Vauxhall ticket, not a London one, would do for both destinations. I only mentioned the convoluted journey as it was described in post #3 and I wondered if it was being suggested that you get a Vauxhall ticket, which you would use via Battersea Park and break the journey there - that's not permitted. I may well have over-interpreted things in this thread!

 

[akm]

Thanks so much - yes, as per the attachment. I have to put Battersea Park as a 'via' station in Trainsplit.

and what's in the 'Your Tickets' expando when you're on that screen?

 

[fandroid]

Unless someone advises otherwise, I think the recommendation is to buy a Streatham Common to London Terminals season ticket, and that will offer loads of flexibility beyond just travelling to Vauxhall or Battersea Park. BR fares tells me the monthly fare is £30.10. I can't see the price for a 12 month one but presumably it's just a standard multiple of the monthly season fare

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Unless someone advises otherwise, I think the recommendation is to buy a Streatham Common to London Terminals season ticket, and that will offer loads of flexibility beyond just travelling to Vauxhall or Battersea Park. BR fares tells me the monthly fare is £30.10. I can't see the price for a 12 month one but presumably it's just a standard multiple of the monthly season fare

£30.10 is the weekly fare, so the annual cost would be £1204.00 (40 x multiplier) but I think the OP was hoping on using the apparently somewhat cheaper Streatham Common -> Vauxhall season ticket fare discussed above.

 

[transportphoto]

BR fares tells me the monthly fare is £30.10. I can't see the price for a 12 month one but presumably it's just a standard multiple of the monthly season fare

£30.10 is the seven day season, not the monthly.

I think the OP was hoping on using the apparently cheaper Streatham Common -> Vauxhall fare discussed above.

Indeed, the weekly for this is £15.70 but is much more restrictive in terms of routing.

 

[fandroid]

Sorry folks. Got that one wrong!

The OP was looking for a value option. It looks as if it's a tricky one. Get the point to point season to Vauxhall and wave the contactless card when intending to use Battersea Park

 

[30907]

Sorry folks. Got that one wrong!

The OP was looking for a value option. It looks as if it's a tricky one. Get the point to point season to Vauxhall and wave the contactless card when intending to use Battersea Park

That would mean touching in at CLJ and therefore stepping back a train.
It would make more sense to have the season to Battersea Park and use contactless to Vauxhall - or a paper ticket for a return trip.

Or simply to walk from Battersea Park all the time

 

[kieron]

Hi there - if be grateful for advice as to whether a route is valid. I'd like to buy a season ticket from my home station of Streatham Common to Vauxhall. Would this ticket also be valid to Battersea Park?

I'm a bit late here, but your suggested ticket is absolutely fine. If I put Streatham Common-Vauxhall with a change at Battersea Park into nre.co.uk* it gives lots of itineraries which are valid with a through ticket.

What some people here may have missed is the fact that you are allowed to walk between Battersea Park and Queenstown Road as part of a through route. They are very close together.

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