London One Day Travelcards

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[GWR 158]

Hi all,

I am looking for further information on purchasing a London One Day Travelcard.

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Thank you in advance
GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) 158

[Timmer]

https://tfl.gov.uk/fares/how-to-pay-and-where-to-buy-tickets-and-oyster/travelcards-and-group-tickets

[PhilWakely]

You can buy a Day Travelcard from any rail ticket office.

[ChrisB]

And many TVMs^▸ (Ticket Vending Machine)

[CyclingSid]

Never seem to find it on the National Rail Journey Planner. Used to get flagged up as an option on the old version.

[grahame]

Never seem to find it on the National Rail Journey Planner. Used to get flagged up as an option on the old version.

Interesting.   With the plethora of ticket products available, there are a number which (whilst they are available) are obscure to buy and I have to wonder if that is intentional marketing or just the sign of a system which some consider over-complex and broken.

Not a London travel card but a local (very local) example.  Using the TVM^▸ (Ticket Vending Machine) at Trowbridge, I can pay £5 for a single to Melksham.  Or (after the first two trains in the morning, Monday to Friday) I can pay £4.80 ... but taking me to the £5 was one keystroke whereas (and I counted it) took me over a dozen and I had to know the product was there in the first place for the £4.80 price.

Another - Day trip, Bradford-on-Avon to Barry Island, for 10th August - £30.40 adult (before railcard) though I suspect that you'll need to know where to look on the TVM as it will "obviously" offer you only a fare of £34.20.    And if you're in a group of 3 without railcards, you may be better advised to buy your tickets on the Great Western portion of the journey with "Groupsave" and the Transport for Wales leg separately.

[ChrisB]

Never seem to find it on the National Rail Journey Planner. Used to get flagged up as an option on the old version.

That'll be because it is a journeyplanner, not a fares planner. As it doesn't know where in z1-6 you are going beyond London Terminals, it can't offer you a travelcard. And a point-to-point journey to within z1-6 maybe that a point-to-point ticket is cheaper. You can't tell it that you might want to spend the day on the tubes/buses, therefore it can't know that you want a travelcard.

On some 'journey'planners, you can find "London Zones 1-6" at the bottom of the "London" group of stations. Chiltern for example. But that is why - more complicated programming wrongly specced.