Engineering the Future festival

[ppppenguin]

At IET, Savoy Place. I'm going to this on Thursday. Anyone else going? Tickets (free) still available:
http://www.engfest.org/ff50.html

I won't even have to pay for my tube fare to get there as I turned 60 last week and have my free London transport pass

[Raditechman]

You will find the free travel very useful.
I have had a London Freedom pass for 11 years, (they issued them at 60 back then).
Although nowadays I find the tubes too overcrowded to enjoy travelling in.

I went to a talk at Savoy place once , it was well presented and the catering was also good. Doubt if I will get to this all day event.

I've  posted an upcoming  Marconi lecture as a new thread.

John.

[ppppenguin]

Not long after the free pass was changed to state pension age (66 in my case) the mayor of London brought in a scheme where if you live in a London borough and pay a "one off" £20 you get a pass that gives free travel throughout London. But not elsewhere.

https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/ad...don-oyster

[ppppenguin]

Some interesting talks. Whole thing is available as video on the IET website.

Afterwards went to the BBC R3 anniversary bash at the Royal Festival Hall. Had a brief chat with Penny Gore whose voice I have always adored.

[Terry]

You will find the free travel very useful.
I have had a London Freedom pass for 11 years, (they issued them at 60 back then).

The London Freedom pass is also an England Bus Pass, of course, and is valid on all Stage Carriage bus services in England between 0930 and 2300 Monday to Friday and all day at weekends - provided, of course, that there are any buses to catch!

Local councils can add additional features - as in London and Tyne & Wear, for example, but can't encroach on the core validity.

Here in Lincoln, for example, I notice that local passes are valid on the 2300 departure ex Lincoln on weekdays whereas mine is rejected (although, on the 2 or 3 occasions I've tried it, the driver has glanced at my pass and waved me on!)

One exception that many visitors to London may not be aware of, though, is that, exceptionally, all England bus passes have 24 hour validity on all London buses, including the many night buses.

[ppppenguin]

The over 60 London pass isn't valid outside Greater London. It's a special London scheme that's outside the national scheme. When I get my freedom pass at 66 (when I get my state pension) that will be valid on buses elsewhere in England. I didn't realise that the national freedom pass had limited hours. The over 60 pass (and freedom passes issued in London) are valid 24/7 on all buses, tubes and trams. Some mainline services within London are only available after 0900 or 0930.

[Terry]

Some mainline services within London are only available after 0900 or 0930.

National railways services were always only available after 0930 unless they paralleled  the underground or tube, when they adopted the (original) TfL 0900 timing over these sections.

Many of these services have now been taken over by TfL and are operated as London Overground or TfL Rail, so are now available to pass holders 24 hours a day.