Special Offers Disabled Persons Railcard

Summary

If you are disabled, you can buy a Disabled Railcard for only £18 or £48 Save 1/3 on Standard and First Class rail fares

Offer details

The Disabled Persons Railcard is available to disabled adults and children. The Railcard allows you and an adult companion with you to save 1/3 on Standard and First Class rail fares throughout Great Britain for a whole year or three whole years. The card costs just £18 for a whole year or £48 for three whole years, so if you make one journey that normally costs £54 or a couple of shorter trips you've covered the cost. And you can look forward to dramatic savings for 12 whole months. There are plenty of ways you can use your Railcard, for both long and short trips. Better still you can use it almost anytime during the week, weekends and Public Holidays. The only restriction is morning peak period services, Monday to Friday (not including Public Holidays) when journeys are made wholly within the London and South East area. For more details see time restrictions. As with anything in life there are some exceptions, so check the different ticket types and whether to see your Senior Railcard discount applies.

Applicable train operators & stations

Train operators:

Merseyrail, Virgin Trains, CrossCountry, National Express East Anglia, East Midlands Trains, Heathrow Express, London Midland, First Transpennine Express, Gatwick Express, National Express East Coast, First Capital Connect, Southern, London Overground, c2c, Northern Rail, Chiltern Railways, Hull Trains, Arriva Trains Wales, Southeastern, Heathrow Connect, Island Line, First Great Western, First ScotRail, South West Trains

Fares

Adult

£18 for a whole year or £48 for three whole years.

Validity

Applies

From: 05/03/2008 Until: Until further notice

Times

Not specified

Details

1. Tickets for your journey should be purchased before boarding the train and when buying tickets you must show the Railcard. You must have the Railcard with you on your journey and show the valid Railcard and ticket to rail staff at their request. If you do not show both the Railcard and the ticket, you will be required to pay the full price Standard or First Class Single fare, as appropriate for your journey as if no ticket was purchased before starting the journey and in some cases a penalty fare. This does not apply if there was no ticket office at the station at which you began your journey or if the ticket office was closed and there was no ticket machine from which you could buy a discounted ticket. 2. Time restrictions - ask for details. 3. In the case of some low price tickets the actual discount with a Railcard may be slightly lower than that advertised. 3. The right is reserved to revise these Conditions and availability of the tickets detailed here. The Train Companies will endeavour to give three months' notice of any changes before they are due to come into effect. 4. Tickets issued to the holder of the Railcard are issued subject to the National Rail Conditions of Carriage. Copies of the National Rail Conditions of Carriage are available from any staffed station ticket office.

Available for purchase

From: 05/03/2008 Until: Until further notice

How to buy your tickets

You must provide proof that you qualify for the Disabled Persons Railcard. You might qualify if you have a visual impairment or a hearing impairment or have epilepsy or are in receipt of a disability related benefit. The Disabled Person’s Railcard cannot be purchased online or through telesales or stations, so complete the form available on the Disabled Person's Railcard website and send to the address given in the Rail Travel Made Easy leaflet with proof of your entitlement. Existing Railcard holders who want to renew their card can do so by phone on 0845 605 0525 or online on the Disabled Person's Railcard website