{"id":16922,"date":"2023-10-13T21:29:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=16922"},"modified":"2023-10-13T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T20:29:44","slug":"secret-saving-on-london-travels-with-network-railcard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/10\/13\/secret-saving-on-london-travels-with-network-railcard\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret saving on London travels with Network Railcard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you live in the UK you should be familiar with the railcards, as they give you a discount of 34% on the (ridiculously) expensive train tickets. I was once young too and had the 16-25 \/ 25-30 railcards, but those good times are gone. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16940\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A less useful or known one is the Network Railcard. It is available to anyone, but has tougher restrictions. It is valid only in Southeast England, and there&#8217;s a \u00a313 minimum fare for travelling on weekdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It still has value though, as it covers a few major cities including London, Birmingham, Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and Brighton. The reduction also works on airport trains to\/from Luton, Stansted and Gatwick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t travel outside London, the Network Railcard can buy you a discounted weekend Travelcard for London too, although it needs a workaround which I only found out by accident recently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can&#8217;t just buy the Travelcard straightaway, instead you need to search for a day return ticket between two London stations. This is what LNER offers for London Waterloo &#8211; Hampton Court with a Network Railcard:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard-london-travelcard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard-london-travelcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16920\" style=\"width:400px\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard-london-travelcard.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard-london-travelcard-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/network-railcard-london-travelcard-768x435.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As you can see, there&#8217;s a \u00a310 Day Travelcard option which is valid for Zone 1-6. For comparison the regular price is \u00a315.2, and Oyster daily cap is \u00a314.9. Note that you must collect your paper ticket at a <strong>train <\/strong>station, as there&#8217;s no facility to do that in a tube station. The ticket is valid for tube \/ bus travels within Zone 6 and you don&#8217;t have to commence your travel at the station you selected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Network Railcard usually costs \u00a330, but there are always some sales going on. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/trip-railcard-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Trip.com tends to offer it for less than \u00a320<\/a>, although do check the restrictions as you may need to buy a train ticket to activate the railcard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in the UK you should be familiar with the railcards, as they give you a discount of 34% on the (ridiculously) expensive train&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-16922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk","tag-train"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16922"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16945,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16922\/revisions\/16945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}