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How to save £100’s off your Underground/Rail travel fares.
If you are reading this then you are probably fed up with hot, stinky,
busy delayed tubes and trains and are looking for some sort of relief
or compensation. So, take a deep breath because you have finally
stumbled across a little bit of relief from those headaches.
What I am about to show you is 100% tried, tested and proven by myself and others.
This document will be as concise and to the point as I can make it, but
I’ll start with how to get money back from journeys that you have
travelled.
The TFL or Transport for London and all Rail firms have a way of
compensating their customers for any inconvenience caused by delayed
tubes or trains. The thing is that even though they offer this option
for distraught travellers, what 99% of people do not realise is that if
a tube is delayed by 15 minutes or more, or train is delayed by 30
minutes or more, then you can claim back costs on your journey.
Surprised? I was. How many times have you been standing on a platform
listening to the loud speaker of another delay, signalling failure,
engineering works etc? A few I bet. If you added all those journeys
together and estimated the cost of them, you would be surprised at how
much money you could have possibly claimed back.
So, in order to save money off your travel fares the summarised
procedure is to pick up the refund vouchers from the tube/train
station, fill them in, post them, await the vouchers and then cash them
in at any train station in return for your, daily, weekly or monthly
travel card. Be aware though, that it can take approx a week or two to
end the process, but be happy in knowing that it is 100% proven and
will almost certainly work and can be done over and over again at any
time of the year.
So, let’s begin with the steps;
1. Pick up the refund form. Now these forms are
located at every single tube/rail stop and you have probably walked
passed them a hundred times before and not even noticed them. They are
situated with the little maps of the Underground and are on one of the
walls in a holder close to the gates or ticket machines. They most
often than not say “Our Customer Charter”.
2. Fill in the form.
We will talk about the form in three sections.
Section 1 Fill in your personal details;
Name, address, phone number and email address. Now here you really only
need to put your name and address as your phone number and email are
irrelevant.
Section 2 Ticket details;
There are 5 different ways to prove your ticket status.
A. Oyster Card details. If you used an Oyster card
for your journey you just put in your Oyster card number and what type
of card, Adult, Child or odd Period you have.
B. TFL Travel card. Put in the ticket number, issuing station and expiry date.
C. Normal Tube; single, return, daily or 7 day ticket. Of which you need to attach to the form.
D. National Rail Travel card. Again, Ticket number, Issuing station and Expiry date.
E. Or, and the easiest option and failsafe one is if
you were travelling on a single journey and the ticket was retained by
the ticket machine when leaving, you just have to fill in which tube
stop you departed from.
Section 3 Claim details;
This is where you need to fill in the information of your journey. Details include;
· Where you started your journey from.
· Where you finished your journey.
· The date of the delay.
· Approx start time of your journey.
· Approx time of the delay.
· Length of delay. Make sure that you put in
at least 15 minutes for a tube journey or 30 minutes for a rail journey
as this is the minimum amount of time for a refund to be issued.
· Which station, or between which stations did the delay occur.
· Which line/s were you travelling on.
· Date it and sign it.
Now this all seems like a lot but once you see the form you’ll realise that this can be done all in less than a minute.
3. Post the form.
Another thing to be aware of is that the form needs to be sent into the
rail firm within 14 days of when the delay occurred. Postage is free
and you just need to seal up the form and drop it in the post box.
The amount of refund you get back depends on your journey. If you
travelled from say zone 1 to 3 then you would get back £2.50 or
from zone 1-2 you would get £2 etc, basically the cost of your
single journey.
4. Cash in the vouchers.
So, every time you experience a delay of 15 minutes or more go grab
yourself a form, fill it in, post it off, and within a week or two the
Rail firm will send you the voucher. You either hold onto these
vouchers until you have enough for a weekly or monthly pass or use them
for a single journey by taking them up to any ticketing booth and
cashing them in. If you experience the type of delays I’ve been
experiencing then you can easily save up an abundance of vouchers.
Ok, so now you know how to get money back from journeys that you have
travelled, let’s look at how we can make those journeys cheaper
in the first place.
Due to the complex ticket structuring, buying tickets for stages of
your journey can work out much cheaper than buying a single ticket. And
it is completely legit !! It takes a bit of working out, but once
you have it you will be quids in!
I used to commute from Sheffield to Wakefield to work each day and by
buying a South Yorkshire Travel Master ticket together with a season
ticket between Moorthorpe and Wakefield was costing me £107.95
per month instead of the full season ticket price of £133.50
between Sheffield and Wakefield. This combination of ticket is valid on
a through train which does not call at Moorthorpe station (e.g. 0712
Virgin Train) as permitted under Condition 17(c) of the National Rail
Conditions of Carriage, which says:
17. A combination of tickets
You may use two or more tickets to travel on one train journey as long
as together they cover the entire journey and one of the following
applies:
(a) they are zonal tickets;
(b) the train you are on calls at the station where you change from one ticket to another; or
(c) 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, and the other
ticket(s) is/are not. You must comply with any restriction of use to a
particular Train Company's trains shown on the tickets (see Condition
10).
South Yorkshire Zone Travel Master ticket: £63.50 per month;
One Month season ticket between Moorthorpe and Leeds: £72.20 per month;
Making it £135.70 per month altogether.
One full season ticket between Sheffield and Leeds: £151.00 per month.
By buying a combination of tickets as above, a saving of £15.30
per month can be made, plus the cost of all public transport to and
from Sheffield station as the Travel Master ticket is valid on all
buses and trams as well whilst the season ticket between Sheffield and
Leeds is valid on trains only, and the cost of a First Month ticket on
the bus will cost an additional £39 per month.
This combination of tickets satisfy condition 17(c) because the
Moorthorpe to Leeds season ticket is the season ticket required and the
South Yorkshire Travel Master ticket is the 'other' ticket when the
condition says clearly that it is not to be regarded as a season ticket
for this purpose.
Another ticket is the Derbyshire Wayfarer ticket when it can be used in
conjunction with a Cheap Day Return ticket from Burton on Trent for
travel to Birmingham.
Derbyshire Wayfarer - valid between Sheffield and Burton on Trent: £7.50 (includes a free child place!)
Cheap Day Return from Burton on Trent to Birmingham: £5.90 - making it £13.40 in total.
A full saver return between Sheffield and Birmingham costs a whopping
£27.30 - plus half fare for a child if you are taking one.
By buying a combination of ticket as above, a saving of at least
£13.90 can be made just for one day out! However, in this case,
the trains that you travel must call at Burton on Trent station as
neither ticket is a season ticket and so condition 17(b) applies.
All major towns have ‘zone’ tickets that mean you can
travel across a huge distance on just one ticket, or use it in
conjunction with the rest of your trip.
For instance, in the Midlands, their ‘zone’ ticket is the
‘Daytripper’ this is valid from Stafford all the way
to Rugby on the WCML !!
If you ever need to go to Crewe, ask for a ticket to Chester, I know
its further, but a B’ham – Crewe is £16, B’ham
– Chester is £10.60 !
And the beauty is, you must change at Crewe to go to Chester, you just don’t use that part of the ticket !
If you travel between London and Scotland, try splitting the ticket at
Stafford. It wont always work, but its worked for me many times to
break the ticket here, its 2 tickets, but you don’t even get off
the train !
The same goes if you need to go to Liverpool or Manchester, try the break at Stafford.
The other day I needed to travel from London to Manchester, not very
odd you might say, but I bought an advance ticket from London to
Glasgow because it was cheaper than a London to Manchester, and the
Glasgow train has to stop in Manchester to pick up passengers !!
If you travel up the East Coast main line ( GNER ) try splitting the
ticket at York, or even if your travelling to Edinburgh from the
Midlands.
Trains to Plymouth, Cornwall etc, try out Bristol or Taunton
Trains along First Group line, from say Bristol to London, your ticket
at Didcot. Or if your travelling from London to Cornwall, try the break
or 2 breaks at Bristol and Didcot.
Travelling from the south coast ? try getting to the capital
first, then continue your journey. I know you will have to change
train, but a lot of cheap fairs originate from London.
There are no hard and fast rules on this but it's usual that you will
need to pick a station which is about half-way through your journey, or
one which is at a county boundary where you cross from one county to
another. But go and have a friendly chat to the ticket agent, most of
them will be happy to help you out!
So good luck with it all and I hope this information can make your Rail or Tube journeys a little more bearable.
And remember, always keep hold of your tickets !! |
