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Rail Season Ticket Price Calculator

Train Season Tickets are likely to offer better value than daily tickets if you are making the same journey on three or more days within a week. Train Season Tickets are available for consequtive periods of seven days, one month, and any period between one and 12 months. For added convenience, you can include PlusBus or a Travelcard with your rail season ticket.

The cost and various options for season tickets available on your preferred route may be calculated using the National Rail Season Ticket Calculator below. Simply enter the desired departure and arrival station names, select the peiod required in the form below and then click 'calculate'.

 

 

About Rail Season Tickets (aka Train Travelcards)

 

British Rail Network Season Ticket

Season Tickets - How much could you save?

If you make the same journey more than three or four times a week you may find that, on the majority of routes, Season Tickets offer better value for money compared to buying daily tickets. Use our Train Season Ticket Calculator above to see how much you could save.

How Long Can Season Tickets Be Valid For?

You can buy a season ticket for seven days or any period between one month and a year:

  • Seven Days - You can use the ticket at any time during any seven day period for travel between the points shown on the ticket - the more you travel, the more you save!

  • A Month - Monthly Season Tickets offer great savings compared to buying four individual Seven Day season tickets.

  • Over One Month - Season Tickets can also be purchased for any duration between one month and one year.

What Journey Can You Buy A Rail Season Ticket For?

Rail Season Tickets are available for most short and medium distance journeys on the National Rail network.

Rail Season Tickets are not generally available for long distance journeys, but maybe available where a train company chooses to offer them.

For very long journeys, an All Line Rail Rover Ticket can work out a lot cheaper than buying individual tickets and gives the added bonus of unlimited travel anywhere on the National Rail Network. They are available for periods of 7 or 14 days - more information can be found on the National Rail web page.

Which Train Company or Route Can I Use?

Unless the season ticket says it can only be used on a specific Train Company, it is valid on all Train Company services on the route and within the zones for which the ticket is issued.

Rail Season Ticket with 'Dual Route Availability'

If two railway lines run close or on geographically parallel routes it may possible to buy a specially priced Rail Season Ticket with dual route availabilit.

For example a Season Ticket from Farnborough to London can be requested to be available to use from Aldershot or a Season Ticket from Huntingdon to London can be available to use from Cambridge.

London Area Travelcard Seasons

Travelcard Season Tickets can be used on most of London's public transport network including National Rail, London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, London Buses and Tramlink services. The Travelcard area is shown on the London Connections map.

For travel only within the London Travelcard area:- If your journey is entirely within the London Travelcard area, Travelcard season tickets offer unlimited travel anytime within the chosen Travelcard Zones on National Rail, London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, and Tramlink (valid throughout the Tramlink network when Travelcard is valid in Zone 3, 4, 5 or 6 or any combination of these Zones) services for the period for which the ticket is valid. Your Travelcard will also be valid on most London bus services on the London Bus network. The London Connections Map shows the extent of all the Zones. Simply identify how many Zones you will be travelling in or through on your journey - then look up the cost of Travelcard season prices on the Transport for London website. Note: Travelcard seasons are issued for a minimum of two adjacent Zones

For travel from a station outside the London Travelcard area:- If you start your commute from a station outside the Travelcard area, your Travelcard season ticket offers unlimited travel between your starting station and the Zone 6 boundary of the Travelcard area (on the route shown on your Travelcard), plus unlimited travel on National Rail, London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Tramlink (valid throughout the Tramlink network when Travelcard is valid in Zone 3, 4, 5 or 6 or any combination of these Zones) within your chosen Zones, for the period for which your ticket is valid. Your Travelcard will also be valid on most London bus services on the London Bus network. Travelcard seasons can only be issued for a minimum of two adjacent Zones and must include Zone 6.


Travelcards are sold in a limited number of combinations of adjacent zones with different combinations available depending on time and length of validity. Travelcards for only one zone are not sold.

Train Season Ticket Benefits

Annual train season tickets are also known as Gold Cards and have some very attractive benefits including but not limited to:-

  • All train season tickets give a generous discount on the cost of your regular journey.

  • Train Season Tickets allow you to travel on your chosen route as often as you like without any time or train service restrictions.

  • Save 1/3 on Off Peak travel – Gold Cards act like Network Railcards saving you 1/3 on Off Peak fares in the Network Railcard area.

  • Kids travel for £1 – Up to 4 accompanying children can travel with your for just £1 each.

  • Network Railcard for £1 – Nominate a friend or relative to receive a Network Railcard for just £1 and they too can enjoy discounted off peak travel.

  • £5 First Class Upgrade – Available any time at weekends and public holidays and on weekdays when you buy a discounted off peak rail ticket for your journey.

Special Rail Season Tickets

  • Annual Gold Cards - Gold Cards are annual season tickets with a difference! When you buy an annual season ticket for a journey entirely within the Network Area, you are automatically issued with a Gold Card.

  • 'Early Bird' Season Tickets - First Transpennine Express offers discounted Season Tickets for travel on earlier trains.ravel between Huddersfield/Dewsbury/Leeds and Manchester Piccadilly for those passengers who can arrive at Manchester before 0730. The return journey must depart between 1000 and 1600, or after 1830. Ask at the booking office for more details and price.

  • Southeastern offers discounted 7 day or monthly Season Tickets for travel on earlier trains from Gravesnd and Meopham to London. Ask at the booking office for more details and price.

  • First Capital Connect 'Flexitime' - First Capital Connect offers discounted season tickets if you travel at certain times.

    First Capital Connect offers discounted Season Tickets between:

    • New Barnet (and intermediate stations) and Welwyn Garden City
    • Enfield Chase (and intermediate stations) and Hertford North
    • Enfield Town, Edmonton Green, Ponders End (and intermediate stations) and Hertford East
    • Hertford North, Watton-at-Stone and Stevenage

First Capital Connect Flexitime Tickets are valid for travel in the country-bound direction by any train on any day. On Mondays to Fridays travel in the London-bound direction is only permitted on trains timed to depart between 1200 and 0230. No restrictions apply Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays.

Buying a Rail Season Ticket

Rail Season Tickets are available for most short and medium distance journeys on the National Rail network. Season Tickets are not generally available for long distance journeys, but maybe available where a train company chooses to offer them.

For very long journeys, an All Line Rail Rover Ticket can work out a lot cheaper than buying individual tickets and gives the added bonus of Unlimited Travel ANYWHERE on the National Rail Network. All Line Rail Rovers are available for periods of 7 days or 14 days. Other regional Rail Rovers may be available but usually have some time restrictions during peak hours - more information can be found on our Special Offers page.

When To Buy Rail season Tickets

You may be able to buy your Season Ticket before the day it is due to start. However, to avoid misuse of season tickets, they can only be purchased a short period of time beforehand. A passport sized photograph is required for a Photocard, which must be carried at all times when travelling. Rail Season Tickets can be purchased at any staffed station.

Using your Train Season Ticket

You can use your Train Season Ticket up to and including its expiry date for any number of journeys between the stations and/or within the zone(s) shown on it at any time of day. It may be used at intermediate stations, and on any permitted route, unless a route or any other restrictions are specified on the ticket. Details are available where these tickets are issued.

With First Class Season Tickets you may travel in the First Class or Standard Class areas of the train. Standard Class Season Ticket holders may upgrade their Season Ticket to First Class at the ticket office before they board the train (or on the train if there is no open ticket office where you board the train).

Travelcard Season Tickets allow unlimited travel at any time of day on National Rail, London Underground, Docklands Light Railway, Croydon Tramlink within the London Fare Zones Area. Travelcard Season Tickets are also valid on most London Bus services throughout the London Bus network. For journeys starting outside the London Fare Zones Area, the Travelcard Season Ticket allows travel by train between the starting station and the London Fares Zones Area boundary, and then unlimited travel within the zones paid for.

Full bus details are available from: Transport for London, 55 Broadway, London SW1H OBD Tel: 020 7222 1234.

You cannot transfer your Season Ticket to another person..

PLUSBUS Season TicketsPLUSBUS - Combined Rail and Bus Season Tickets

You can now buy your train season ticket and your bus season ticket at the train station in just one easy transaction – saving you time and money!

What's more, with a PLUSBUS season ticket you can travel as much as you like during the evening and at weekends. Use PLUSBUS for your journeys to the shops, leisure attractions and to visit your friends!

With a PLUSBUS season ticket you don't have to drive in peak hour traffic, or hunt around for a parking space. Simply hop-on any bus, show your PLUSBUS season ticket to the driver and away you go!

PLUSBUS season tickets are available to 170 towns and cities across Britain. They are valid for set periods to match your train season ticket: 7-days; 1-month; 3-months and 1-year and give you unlimited bus travel on all participating bus operators’ services around your origin, or destination town.

Rail Season Ticket Refunds

If you stop travelling and no longer need your Season Ticket, please hand it in at, or post it to, the ticket office where you bought it. Any refund is calculated from the date the Season Ticket was handed in. It will be the difference between the price you paid and the cost of a ticket or tickets for the period for which you have actually used the ticket, plus an administration charge. Because of the discounts on longer term Season Tickets, refunds are not made pro rata to the periods before/after surrender and Annual Season Tickets have no refund value after about 10 1/2 months. For this reason we recommend that employers' Annual Season Ticket loan schemes are set up so that reimbursements are made in 10 equal monthly payments with two 'free' months at the end of the year, rather than in 12 equal monthly payments.

There must be at least seven days remaining on a Monthly Season Ticket or at least three days remaining on a 7 Day Season Ticket to obtain a refund (although on some 7 Day Season Tickets there may be no refund value after three days of use, dependent upon the relevant Standard Day Return price.

In cases of illness, the refund can be backdated if you produce suitable documentary evidence for a period before you hand in your ticket, provided that you have not started travelling again using your Season Ticket since your illness.

We do not give refunds or allow Season Tickets to be extended for periods of non-use, for example holidays. We do not normally give refunds on duplicate Season Tickets although consideration will be given if you can give written evidence of redundancy, prolonged illness or similar circumstances or if the original ticket is recovered and returned to the issuing ticket office within one month of its loss. Please ask at the ticket office for more details.