Can I Get Any Discounts ?

[tamaris]

I have a senior railcard of 3 years, I have a free bus pass, can I get any concessions on the tube in London ?

[tamaris]

I dont live in London

[Buenchico]

Only holders of Freedom Passes (which are only available to senior citizens living in London) get free Tube travel. An English Bus Pass, issued elsewhere in the country, is only valid on London buses. (Bus passes issued in other parts of the UK aren't valid). Note that, as long as the bus has the London Transport roundel on it, there are no time restrictions for free travel with an English Bus Pass.

A Senior Railcard isn't valid for directly purchasing Tube tickets on their own. However if you're travelling into London for the day, you can get a Travelcard (for unlimited travel on buses, trams and the Underground, the DLR and some National Rail services) added onto your rail ticket and, if you use a Senior Railcard, the one-third discount is applied to the cost of the Travelcard as well as the rail journey into London. (There are minimum fare requirements for that to apply. See link below).

Further, if you've got an Oyster Card for travelling in London (which has to have been registered in your name), you can get your Senior Railcard linked to it, so that you get a third reduction on off-peak Underground and DLR fares:
http://www.senior-railcard.co.uk/help/faqs/143/

[mikey4444]

You'll be lucky to get a seat tamaris !

[Buenchico]

Re Mikey's post:
Quite often, even when passengers in the central carriages have their noses firmly pressed into other people's armpits by the crush, there are free seats in the first and last carriages of many trains.

[Ellipsis]

Senior ladies are often offered a seat. Well, at least by me ...

[mikey4444]

If I travelled on the Tube, I would give my seat up to a senior lady as well....not many of us Gentlemen left you know !

[Jackdaw33]

That reminds me. When I was a boy every bus had a notice saying, "Children travelling at half fare are expected to give up their seats when adult passengers are standing". Don't see that these days.

[mikey4444]

Jack....don't remember that one !

[Jackdaw33]

Well, it was. You also no longer see the "No Spitting" notices.

[tamaris]

Haha yes I will be lucky to get a seat Mikey lol. Thank you Ellipsis and Mikey for offereing me your seat my faith is restored in human nature once again. I will take my senior railcard and my Oyster card into the station on arrival thank you Chris xxxx