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Are National Rail tickets valid on the London Underground?

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Hi. This weekend I plan on travelling from a station in my town in Greater London (Town A) to a station in a town outside Greater London (Town B). The journey involves a few interchanges, including a Tube journey in the middle. Obviously I can’t use my Oyster Card the whole way so I’d need to buy one of those orange-edged paper train tickets to eventually reach Town B.

I was thinking of buying an off-peak return paper ticket that goes from Town A to Town B. But I’m not 100% sure if this ticket also includes Tube journeys as well? The fact that the National Rail website suggests this particular route with the Tube journey must mean yes, does it? And the machines any stations apart from my final destination station won’t swallow up my ticket, will they?

Can people please confirm this to me please, or otherwise suggest a better alternative? That would be very helpful, thanks :)

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fractal.scatter offline Verified User (4 years, 5 months) Help.com Volunteer Moderator Long Term User Shouts: 1 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (3 minutes after post)

Most likely, yes it will. Usually this is applicable for changes between termini; for example, you can buy a ticket from Gatwick to Watford Junction and use the Victoria Line to travel between London Victoria and London Euston (and any combination of LU lines).

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cosmiccoolgir offline Verified User (6 years, 2 months) Long Term User Shouts: 3 #
Gatwick, B8, GB | 1 year ago (12 minutes after post)

fractal.scatter wrote:
Most likely, yes it will. Usually this is applicable for changes between termini; for example, you can buy a ticket from Gatwick to Watford Junction and use the Victoria Line to travel between London Victoria and London Euston (and any combination of LU lines).

OK, thanks. I have to get a tube from London Bridge to Marylebone, so hopefully this should work, yes? :)

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An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (16 minutes after post)

Yes that should be fine. I would do Waterloo & City and change at Baker Street for Central. Just use the ticket in the barrier like an ordinary travel card. The worst that can happen is that it’ll give you the ticket back without opening the barrier. Just go to the gateline assistant if that happens.

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An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (2 hours, 11 minutes after post)

fractal.scatter wrote:
Yes that should be fine. I would do Waterloo & City and change at Baker Street for Central. Just use the ticket in the barrier like an ordinary travel card. The worst that can happen is that it’ll give you the ticket back without opening the barrier. Just go to the gateline assistant if that happens.

LIAR the worst that could happen is that it swallows the ticket and you’re at a really bust station and then you DIE

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An Unknown Location | 1 year ago (2 hours, 12 minutes after post)

I’m going to London tomorrow hm. I’m so helpful today :S not

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