Senior Citizens Railcard
 

Hi lads. The missus has bought me an old fogies railcard for my 61st birthday. I am a rejuvinated enthusiast having had a long lay off and have lots of blanks in my spotters pocket book.
I need to see some Class 67s/73s/86s/90s. I would appreciate your thoughts on where I need to visit to have a successful day.
I live in Durham and note that I can get down to London and back in early March for £21 return using my old fogie card.

Why not use your SSRC to get a rover ticket I have done that on a few occasions.:)

That's a very smart idea - I did such a thing in July, when I found that, with my Senior Railcard, it was actually cheaper to get an 8 out of 15 day Freedom of Severn & Solent Rover AND a 7 day Heart of England Rover (that's a possible 15 days worth of travel) than to get the cheapest fares (WITH Railcard) from Portsmouth to Crewe and return! Have a good look through this:-

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_...nd_rovers.html

Give it a go! :):)

They are a useful bit of kit last year using one I went Milton Keynes Glasgow return for 75pence.The conductor couldnt believe his eyes when he saw the ticket.Enjoy your trips.

Your SSRC/Bus pass can be used as ID to get other age related concessions.

What might they be ? :D

Does the SSRC have to be purchased ?

The Senior Rail Card does not include bus travel and costs IIRC £25 for a year.

The card that includes bus travel is your local authority one which has a train pass on the back of the national bus pass and varies from one area to another.

Often the local authority discount is bigger and often covers a larger area. Clearly not the distances the OP is writing about though

SSRC costs £26 per year & can be purchased from any railway booking office proof of age (60) required.
I have a bus pass(over 60s) which can be used to get discount on some local rail tickets.(can be cheaper than using SSRD)
If you see a place saying concessions at the door that applies to the over 60s

Many thanks for your replies to my post lads regarding the senior citizens railcard. Rovers sound a great idea when I can fit something like that in that is. I am in full time employment bus driving you see. For now I shall have to be content with the odd day out now and again. Meantime I shall make enquiries as to the options you have put to me.

You can get day rovers.:)

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_...nd_rovers.html

Senior Railcards are £26 but require either an existing railcard, driving license, passport or birth certificate as proof of age (60+), a bus pass is not officially proof of age for the railcard. Generally speaking there is a 34% discount on most rail fares with a Senior Railcard.

National bus passes can be used on rail lines local to the issueing council/PTE with varying benefits.

As for the spotting, 90s can be seen on the GEML between Norwich and London Liverpool Street, on Freightliner services around the country and there is a 'Pretendelino' and Scotrail Sleeper services out of Euston.

86s are freight only these days, and mostly on Freightliner trains, but 86101, 86701 and 86702 can be found out and about on mail trains and have recently been used on test trains into Stansted. 86901 and 86902 (Network Rail yellow) were somewhere on the WCML last Friday (17th), at Crewe I think (it was there or Warrington Arpley). 86101 was with 87002, 67029 and 67005 (and some 325 EMUs) at Warrington RMT (north of Warrington Bank Quay) on that day too.

67s are in regular use with Wrexham and Shropshire between Wrexham and London Marylebone and operate as 'Thunderbird' rescue locos on the ECML. There is a fair chance you might see one at Warrington also.

73s will be tricky to see, there aren't many about. Network rail use them on test trains mostly around the southern region,and GBRf have some in use too, Peterborough might have a couple on site.

where to see classes 67 &73 alternate locations
 

Toton has an allocation of 67's (in EWS RED/gold) though only a few remain on shed at any one time
and as for 73's then a good place to see quite a number of these is Barrow Hill as they go through service here not sure if it's Nemesis or Harry Needle who does it

When you already have a SSRC you only need produce the old card to get a new one.