Early Notice: East Coast Token Collect offer

[142094]

Advert in today's Evening Chronicle that East Coast are doing the token collect promotion, starting next Tuesday (3rd Jan). The paper is published by Trinity Mirror so it might be in a few others in the NE and Yorkshire (Evening Gazette is normally the other one for Teesside).

 

[General Zod]

Will any tokens be available to collect from the local papers in Middlesbrough / Stockton ?

 

[142094]

Will any tokens be available to collect from the local papers in Middlesbrough / Stockton ?

Evening Gazette is normally the other paper that does the tokens in the north east area at the same time as the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle. I'll have a look.

 

[OMGitsDAVE]

There was an advert in the Evening Gazette the other day so i presume this will happen.

 

[General Zod]

I was just wondering if the ticket would only be valid if the journey originated from a station in the North East or could you buy a Kings Cross (KGX) to Newcastle / Durham / Darlington return ticket using the tokens ? If the latter is valid perhaps friends / relatives could send you the tokens which you could redeem at KGX.

 

[yorkie]

You can buy tickets for any journeys on East Coast, though typically 'connections' from other TOCs seem to be excluded.

 

[142094]

I was just wondering if the ticket would only be valid if the journey originated from a station in the North East or could you buy a Kings Cross (KGX) to Newcastle / Durham / Darlington return ticket using the tokens ? If the latter is valid perhaps friends / relatives could send you the tokens which you could redeem at KGX.

I made the mistake of thinking that once and booked ticket from Leeds to King's Cross using a set of tokens from Yorkshire Evening Post. So that meant I had to go to Leeds from York (but didn't really matter as I had my season ticket at the time).

In most cases the tokens are not checked, so it would be impossible for a conductor to tell if you had the right tokens for the right area, so to speak.

 

[maddeningcrowds]

Also Yorkshire Evening Post
http://www2.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/EastCoastRailJan2011/YEP.asp

 

[route:oxford]

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[142094]

Further to this, I have one set of 6 tokens (which allows a return journey for one person) free to the first person who PMs me. Still some good offers around as I booked some tickets last night with another set.