• Our new ticketing site is now live! Using either this or the original site (both powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

St Margarets (London) to Slough, then St Albans back to St Margarets

Status
Not open for further replies.

Dan_Lockton

Member
Joined
26 Nov 2011
Messages
30
Location
Utrecht
I need to do these two journeys in the same day (SWT St Margarets (London) to Windsor & Eton Riverside, walk to Windsor & Eton Central, then FGW to Slough, then later in the day St Albans to West Hampstead (FCC), London Overground to Richmond, and SWT to St Margarets).

It'll be a Saturday, travelling out at around 10am and leaving St Albans around 10pm).

Is it permissible to do this on a St Albans - Zones 1-6 Travelcard (or Z2-6 but I'm not sure if that still exists), plus a Feltham- (or BZ6) Slough single? This looks like it would be slightly cheaper than two singles (St Margarets - Slough and St Albans - St Margarets)

It would involve massively starting short, and the 'outward' leg of the St Albans - London ticket would be used many hours after the initial St Margarets - edge of Zone 6 bit. But I don't know if this matters with Travelcards?

If is is permissible, how does one go about buying a St Albans - Z1-6 Travelcard from a website? What destination do I enter to get that? (NRE doesn't recognise typing Zones... or London Zones... - am I missing something really obvious?)

Thanks everyone for your help!
 
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

dzug2

Member
Joined
5 Feb 2011
Messages
867
Most websites (FGW for certain) will offer the one day travel card as an option if you search for a St Albans-London day return journey

I wouldn't like to comment on the permissibility of it though.
 

yorkie

Forum Staff
Staff Member
Administrator
Joined
6 Jun 2005
Messages
73,885
Location
Yorkshire
Dan - I've sent you a PM with a potential concise letter to send to FCC, as I am not entirely certain myself.

I have since done some more research into this....

I believe it would be safer (and cheaper!) to use an "in-boundary" Zones 1-6 Travelcard, plus BZ6 to Slough, and St Albans to BZ6 singles.

[stn]SMG[/stn] - London Zones 1-6 [0035] ODT £8.50
Boundary Zone 6 [0072] - [stn]SLO[/stn] (Rte: via Windsor*) £6.40
[stn]SAC[/stn] - Boundary Zone 6 [0072] SDS £4.70

SDS = Anytime Day Single
ODT = Off Peak Day Travelcard

(* There is a strong argument to say the Rte: Any Permitted ticket is valid though; I firmly believe it is, but it may not give you a hassle-free journey)
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top