Additional benefits are available in certain areas for bus pass holders – see details below. These extra benefits are generally available to people resident within the area concerned.
Lancashire NoW Card
Holders of Elderly NoWcards issued by Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool, Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, and Wyre:
- Off Peak free travel on Blackpool Trams and the Knott-End to Fleetwood Ferry.
Holders of Elderly NoWcards issued by West Lancs :
- Off Peak free travel on Blackpool Trams and the Knott-End to Fleetwood Ferry.
- 50p flat fare before 9.30am on local bus journeys starting or ending in West Lancs
- 50p flat fare on local bus journeys after 11.00pm on journeys starting or ending in West Lancs
Greater Manchester
If you live in Greater Manchester, you can also use your pass to travel for free, or for half the standard fare before 9.30am, on trains and Metrolink trams in Greater Manchester.
Holders of the national travel pass who reside in North Lincolnshire are entitled to reduced fare travel on local train journeys. Pass holders must pay half fare (one third off Saver and Standard Single tickets) for any local train journey.
* Your pass is valid on trains between any two stations in North Lincolnshire. These are: Althorpe, Barnetby, Barrow Haven, Barton upon Humber, Brigg, Crowle, Goxhill, Kirton Lindsey, new Holland, Scunthorpe, Thornton Curtis and Ulceby
* Your pass is also valid between any of these North Lincolnshire stations and: Habrough, Stallingborough, Healing, Great Coates, Grimsby Town, Grimsby Docks, New Clee, Cleethorpes, Thorne South, Stainforth and Hatfield, Kirksandall, Doncaster, Gainsborough Central, Market Rasen and Lincoln. Please remember one end of your journey must be in North Lincolnshire
* Concessionary rail travel to Market Rasen, Gainsborough Central and Lincoln is only available via Barnetby.
London
Your Freedom Pass is valid on most local buses (in the Greater London area) at any time of day or night.
The Freedom Pass is accepted all day, every day on London’s trams.
The Freedom Pass is accepted all day, every day on the whole of the London Underground (the ‘tube’), Overground (which replaced the old Silverlink service) and Docklands Light Railway (DLR) network.
Your Freedom Pass allows you to travel for free in all standard classes of the train carriages on most local rail services, provided you travel in the following times:
- 9.30am and 4.30am the following morning Monday to Friday
- all day at weekends
- all day on public holidays.
Freedom Pass holders are entitled to a 50% discount on normal river fares on the following services at the following times:
- after 9.00am Mondays to Fridays
- at any time on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays
- at all other times, pass holders must pay a standard fare.
Merseyside
You can also use travel passes issued by Merseytravel on Merseyrail and Mersey Ferries.
N Ireland
The Senior SmartPass (age 65 & over)
With a Senior SmartPass you can travel anywhere in Northern Ireland on any Translink bus or rail service completely free of charge. You can also enjoy free cross border travel.
Tyne & Wear
If you live in Tyne and Wear and have a Metro Gold Card ( £12 a year), you can travel for free on Metro from 9.30am Monday to Friday and all day at weekends and on public holidays if you buy a Metro Gold Card (restrictions removed in July and August).
Metro Gold Card is also valid on Northern Rail services between Newcastle and Sunderland from 9.30am Monday to Friday, and all day at weekends and on public holidays.
West Midlands
If you are a resident of one of the seven districts of the West Midlands county (Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall or Wolverhampton), you will also be able to travel free on Bus Ring & Ride and rail and Metro services, within the Network West Midlands area only, until the end of daytime service.
South Yorkshire
Within South Yorkshire you can also use your bus pass
• on any bus or tram within South Yorkshire
• between stations on the South Yorkshire rail
network
• to and from West Yorkshire on Northern Rail
services (without changing trains in West Yorkshire).
West Yorkshire
For West Yorkshire residents, your English National Concessionary Pass also entitles you to off-peak train travel within West Yorkshire for just 35p
Wales
Free rail pilot schemes to continue
People living in Wales can also use their passes to travel free on cross-boundary journeys in and out of England, providing the journey starts or finishes in Wales. (Passes are not valid between Carmarthen and Cardiff on service X40 as this isn’t categorised as a ‘local service’ under the regulations). Source: Arriva website
The concessionary fares rail pilot scheme provides free travel on selected railway lines in Wales. These are:
* The Borderlands Line
* The Cambrian Coast Line
* The Heart of Wales Line
* The Conwy Valley Line
Cerdyn Cymru pass holders benefit from free rail travel on the Conwy Valley Line between Blaenau Ffestiniog and Llandudno, and on the Welsh section of the Wrexham – Bidston Line. The first scheme is open to cardholders from the counties of Conwy and Gwynedd, the second those from Flintshire and Wrexham. The scheme will continue until the end of September 2010 for these railway lines.
The Cambrian Coast scheme reopened on the 4th October 2009 for eligible Gwynedd pass holders, and also on the Heart of Wales Line for eligible Swansea, Carmarthenshire and Powys passholders, and will operate until Friday 26th March 2010.
