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Can someone clarify for me, please, the situation on season tickets by age ...

under 5 - 2 travel free with fare paying passenger
5 to 15 - "Child" (season) ticket acceptable no matter why the child is travelling
Any age - "Adult" (season) ticket always acceptable

Questions

a) If mum travels with her triplets aged 4, what does she pay for the third one?  "Child" is 5 to 15 - so presumably the third triplet has to pay an adult fare?

b) What about under 5s travelling with rail staff who get free travel within their employment / pension?

c) 16 year olds (up to - what age? - travelling to school or college). Clearly adult ticket is valid - but what about child / reduced rate seasons?

Question (c) is the one I would really like to understand the answer to ... the others just come from reading things and left me wondering.

A) I don't really see the extra child being an issue.. I wasn't aware of the rule and I certainly wouldn't charge for the extra child because I have no idea what I'd ask you to pay!
B) They would be treated as a free child until they become 5 and then they get their staff travel passes.
C) I believe such passes do exist on a locally arranged basis but I really have no further information.

Sadly adult fares apply from the 16th birthday onwards.  Considering some young people will become 16 within days of starting their final year at secondary school, this does seem rather unfair.  Some areas of the country have scholars passes or other local arrangements (e.g. London).

Some bus companies, on a local basis, will offer child fares to anyone in school uniform.  But there is no such arrangement on the railways.

Many thanks for those replies.   I guess on the under-5 thing I was reading too much into

http://www.firstgreatwestern.co.uk/Train-times-and-tickets/Ticket-types/Leisure-tickets


and http://help.thetrainline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/282


But as I say that was an interesting side issue ... the "biggie" for me is the travel to education after the 16th Birthday.  I did find something relating to certain schools for Greater Anglia, and in the light of your answers that it figures / confirms why that page was as it was.  I'm now educated enough to write a very much cleaner and shorter post than I expected on the Facebook page!

Severnside Community Rail Partnership offer scholar season tickets to those in education aged 18 and under.

http://www.severnside-rail.org.uk/index.php?pid=31

Sadly the linked application form doesn't work and the mentioned sample fares .pdf is non-existent.

Oh, dear. ::)  Something else for me to try to sort out.  Sorry!  :-[

An admin's work is never done, eh Chris? ;D

Well I've learnt something new! I always thought it was all children under 5 travelled free. Not that it was limited to 2 per Adult.

A) I wouldn't make a charge for the third child. But the Adult would be charged obviously.
B) Children of staff get their passes issued at aged 5 until 16 (and then some period afterwards if still in full time education. OU doesn't count).
C) I know that FCC offer a student connect 'slightly' discounted season ticket. I think chiltern issue a scholar ticket with its own restrictions.
TfL issue child rate OysterCards with varying restrictions and periods which result in some 19 year olds getting child rate!!
If a child buys a season ticket when they are 15 and 364 days old (IE only just under 16) the season ticket can still be child rate up until 16 and 4 months old.

I tried to think of something quite erudite and witty to post here in reply, Bob - but then I reverted to my own student mode and simply went   (http://serve.mysmiley.net/animated/anim_35.gif) (http://www.mysmiley.net)

New link - http://www.severnside-rail.org.uk/school.html