Rail Travel - Free Upgrade When Pregnant!

[DebbieM]

When travelling by train you are entitled to a free 1st class upgrade providing you have proof of pregnancy - for example, your NHS exemption card or your MATB1 form.

As part of "The National Conditions of Rail Travel" pregnant women are allowed to travel in 1st class on a standard rail ticket.

How cool is that!

 

[BabyLove]

I Travelled From Leeds To South Wales a Few Weeks Ago & Parked My Arse In First Class By Mistake and Happily Stared Reading My Magazines Until a Ticket Man Came Along and Notified Me I Was In First Class. I Said To Him "Oh Sorry, Are There Any Tables I Can Sit At Somewhere Else?" and He Just Told Me Not To Bother Moving & To Stay Where I Was I Guess Now I Know Why Lol, Thats Great

 

[Tangerinedream]

I did not know that... I paid the exrta £1 for my first class tickets

 

[BabyLove]

£1? My God Thats Cheap! My Nan Buys My Tickets So I Can Visit The Family a Few Times a Year

 

[laura-82]

Woo Hoo

Oxford Street here I come!!!!!

 

[Tangerinedream]

£1? My God Thats Cheap! My Nan Buys My Tickets So I Can Visit The Family a Few Times a Year

yeah, i buy mine online a week in advance so visit my mum in london in style

 

[leckershell]

...and I was lucky to even get a space when I was pregnant. I'm annoyed now that the ticket man never told me as I always had exemption ticket on me and I commuted every day

 

[Squiglet]

Wow times have changed... !!!!! I remember when I was pregnant I was commuting from Farnborough to London several times a week and there were times where there were no seats available and I either had to stand or sit on the floor...

There were several times I just eneded up sitting on the floor because I had been standing for such a long time and my feet began to swell and hardly anyone ever gave their seat up for me...

 

[leckershell]

Wow times have changed... !!!!! I remember when I was pregnant I was commuting from Farnborough to London several times a week and there were times where there were no seats available and I either had to stand or sit on the floor...

There were several times I just eneded up sitting on the floor because I had been standing for such a long time and my feet began to swell and hardly anyone ever gave their seat up for me...

This is how my commutes were sometimes. If the platform was particularly busy I would try and ask a guard to help me thru the crowd and make sure I get a seat, but even then there wasn't always a guard around to help, and the looks I got off the other passengers...