Rail season tickets
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Im looking at moving which would involve a commute into London. Im interested in how much people pay for their season tickets to get into London and how long the journey takes from where they are. How do you fund them? I know some employers offer season ticket loans but often they are capped at 5k per annum
Im looking at moving which would involve a commute into London. Im interested in how much people pay for their season tickets to get into London and how long the journey takes from where they are. How do you fund them? I know some employers offer season ticket loans but often they are capped at 5k per annum
http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_t...
Eta: some will let you pay monthly. It is impossible for you to really get a good indication as the price varies by train operator, station you're traveling from and to etc.
Eta: some will let you pay monthly. It is impossible for you to really get a good indication as the price varies by train operator, station you're traveling from and to etc.
Chafford Hundred (Lakeside to the uninitiated) to Fenchurch Street for me, £52 a week and c£1900 annually. Takes 30 mins +/- 5 depending on stopping pattern and if trains are not subject to delay I always get a seat both ways. Newish trains and heaters and air con both work very well.
Not sure where you are looking but a friends of the wife commutes from Clacton to Liverpool Street and that is just over £5,000 annually apparently.
Not sure where you are looking but a friends of the wife commutes from Clacton to Liverpool Street and that is just over £5,000 annually apparently.
Chrisgr31 said:
Crowborough (Sussex) to London Bridge, just over an hour each way, always a seat up, need to be there early on return to get a seat, costs £2,600 a year and is on turbo-diesel train.
And here's the odd thing- I vary between Crowborough or Uckfield (the price is the same, more free parking in Uckfield plus a free Waitrose coffee vs the extra travel time...oh, and at Uckfield it's not just "a" seat, it's "my" seat 
) which, as you say, is about an hour on a Southern managed line. However I actually live closer to Stonegate on the South Eastern line which is also just over an hour to London Bridge but costs £4550ish pa and costs me between £3-£4 in parking. I've never understood rail pricing.....An annual season ticket is 12 months for the price of 10.
Some employers in London will give you an interest free loan (mine does) and I pay it back over 11 months.
The BIK limit used tone at £5k, but think that was moved up recently, but my lot allow that as a max.
I commute from Northants to Euston and it's £5200pa, and takes 1 hour 20. I do, however, get "my" seat.
Some employers in London will give you an interest free loan (mine does) and I pay it back over 11 months.
The BIK limit used tone at £5k, but think that was moved up recently, but my lot allow that as a max.
I commute from Northants to Euston and it's £5200pa, and takes 1 hour 20. I do, however, get "my" seat.
Gareth1974 said:
Lichfield to Euston is £5800 p.a. and takes about 1hr 10mins. Seems like good value compared to some when you consider the distance (110 miles).
Thats cheap because its restricted to London Midland - are they running to Euston in 1:10 or is that with Virgin? If the latter the season is £9780.theboss said:
Thats cheap because its restricted to London Midland - are they running to Euston in 1:10 or is that with Virgin? If the latter the season is £9780.
This is the issue i have found with that line. If you go LM then its reasonable but takes ages and if you get a ticket that covers the Virgin trains its getting on for 9 grand!I buy monthly tickets but extend them by a couple of days to finish on a Friday.
I don't travel into town at the weekend at all, so essentially once a month I 'save' paying for a couple of extra days.
Over a year, coupled with not buying a ticket to cover holidays, Christmas etc, this adds up to a good saving.
I don't travel into town at the weekend at all, so essentially once a month I 'save' paying for a couple of extra days.
Over a year, coupled with not buying a ticket to cover holidays, Christmas etc, this adds up to a good saving.
By way of comparison, but not at all relevant to the OP my commute here in Switzerland costs me 457 SFr per year, although my employer pays the remaining 75% so in total it's just under 2k or around £1,200. This covers my 20 minute train ride into Zurich Central but is actually a ticket to cover all public transport in Zurich canton so I could take a 40 minute train ride, then use the tram in the city for the same price if I lived in Rapperswil or somewhere else further out than I do.
I always get a seat and in the two months I've lived here the train has been late once. By six minutes. The trains are all nice clean double deck electric ones too, although they do get a bit hot in summer.
I always get a seat and in the two months I've lived here the train has been late once. By six minutes. The trains are all nice clean double deck electric ones too, although they do get a bit hot in summer.
jamiebae said:
I always get a seat and in the two months I've lived here the train has been late once. By six minutes. The trains are all nice clean double deck electric ones too, although they do get a bit hot in summer.
Can honestly say my train hasn't been late in the last two months either...Reading to Paddington = £4088 annual season ticket
Reading to Paddington plus Zones 1to6 = £4856
25 minute journey. Ha! b
ks is it. Get any train later than 7:20am and you're also lucky to be standing by the bogs. The stats don't show just how grim this short commute is, when you start applying what constitutes the 'late' rules and whatnot. Still, first world problems and all that.
Reading to Paddington plus Zones 1to6 = £4856
25 minute journey. Ha! b
ks is it. Get any train later than 7:20am and you're also lucky to be standing by the bogs. The stats don't show just how grim this short commute is, when you start applying what constitutes the 'late' rules and whatnot. Still, first world problems and all that.Podie said:
Can honestly say my train hasn't been late in the last two months either...
I was going to say I can honestly say my train hasn't been on time in the last two months, however I think there have been 2 occasions where it was on time. Usually its only a couple of minutes but of course I cant be a couple of minutes late when catching it or I miss it!Gassing Station | Boats, Planes & Trains | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff