Club 55 Terms & Conditions
1) To take up this offer you must be aged 55 or over and provide proof of age when you travel using a Club 55 ticket. We will only accept passport, driving licence, pension book or a bus pass as proof of age.
2) Customers who are unable or refuse to provide proof of age on request will be required to purchase a new ticket as if no Club 55 ticket is held, no credit will be given for the Club 55 ticket.
3) Club 55 travel will be valid between 8 January and 28 March 2012. Outward travel is permitted on the date shown on the ticket and return travel is permitted within one calendar month of the date of outward travel or 28 March 2012 whichever is the earlier. All travel must be completed by 28 March 2012. Travel on 29 March 2012 or later will require a new ticket to be purchased.
4) Travel is valid on the entire Arriva Trains Wales network and the services of the following operators (supplementary return add-on fare applies):
Chiltern Railways - Between Birmingham Moor Street and London Marylebone (£21 add-on). An interchange between Arriva Trains Wales services and Chiltern Railways is available using London Midland between Smethwick Galton Bridge to Birmingham Moor Street.
Cross Country – Between Cheltenham and Birmingham New St only (£11 add-on).
London Midland – Between Crewe and Liverpool and Hereford and Worcester only (£5 add-on).
Northern Rail – Services in the Greater Manchester County – Bursough Bridge/Bromley Cross/Glossop/ Littleborough/Greenfield/Poynton and Patricroft (£1.50 add-on).
Merseyrail – Any station on the Merseyrail network (£1 add-on)
Add-on fares are only allowed at one end of the journey and not both. Journeys may start or end on the add-on area of the partner train operating companies. Add-on fares must be purchased as a complete journey when the Club 55 ticket is being purchased and cannot be purchased without the core Arriva Trains Wales Club 55 ticket or as an addition at a later date. Club 55 tickets can be used on the services of other train operators within the Arriva Trains Wales network for line of route travel only using the following operators: Cross Country, London Midland, Virgin Trains between North Wales and Crewe. Travel on the services of operators not included in the Club 55 offer will require a new ticket to be purchased. Some Club 55 tickets will have limitations on the train operating companies that can be used on some journeys and only the company or combinations of companies shown on the ticket.
5) A £2 discount to Senior Railcard and Disabled Persons Railcard holders is available on Club 55. Other than this, there are no other railcard/child concessions available in conjunction with this offer.
6) On Mondays to Fridays, some morning travel restrictions will apply. Journeys may not be made which arrive into Cardiff Central, Birmingham New St, Manchester Piccadilly or Liverpool Lime St / Central before 9:30am and 10.00am for London Marylebone. Evening travel restrictions also apply to departures from London Marylebone from 4.00pm to 7.00pm. Travel is not permitted for journeys to Cardiff on 12 February, 10 or 17 March 2012 and to Cheltenham between 13 and 16 March 2012.
7) Date of outward travel may be changed providing this is done before the date of outward travel. Changes on or after the date of outward travel will be treated as refunds and a new ticket will have to be purchased. Any change of date must be within the scope of the offer.
8) Refunds. A full refund, less administration fee, will be granted on unused Club 55 tickets. There are no refunds for part used tickets (this includes travel in one direction only or any journey not completed before 28 March 2012).
Please note: Club 55 tickets will not be available for purchase until the promotion start date, 8 January 2012. You cannot travel until 8 January 2012.
9) All tickets are issued subject to National Conditions of Carriage and can be used by any permitted route or any additional routing permitted on the ticket. Travel beyond the map shown in this leaflet will require a new ticket to be purchased for that journey.
10) Seat reservations are optional with this offer. This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.
11) Club 55 offer valid until 28 March 2012.