New Employee Residential/Season Ticket Application

Please complete all relevant fields and submit at least 7 days in advance.
RST will issue passes or a season ticket approval for you according to your eligibility, status and requirements.
The season ticket will be issued exactly as defined on the form including start and end date. If something different is required, you must let RST know immediately and a new form will need to be sent.

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Employee Details
Residential/Season journey*

Note:

  • Is the start station the one nearest your home? - If not please state why in the Notes field.
  • Is the end station the one nearest your main place of work? - If not please state why in the Notes field.
  • If you have requested a journey which you are not eligible for (eg a zonal ticket/ travel on London Underground if you are non-safeguarded) then we will not be able to authorise a season ticket
Type and duration of season ticket required*
A Flexi season is 8 days travel in 28 days in Standard class only. To check one is available for your journey use the National Rail Season Ticket Calculator.

A Season Ticket can be either

  • 7 days (available from RST Online only)
  • Any duration between one month and one year
Purchasing your Season Ticket

Season tickets will be approved for a 75% discount (priv rate) of full fare season tickets on National Rail services only.

By purchasing through RST Online, you have the freedom to choose the start date, type of season ticket and period of validity to meet your commuting requirements.

Please note the following in relation to purchasing through RST Online:

Some season tickets are only available from a ticket office. These are for journeys:
  • to London Underground stations (Staff Travel Card holders - safeguarded employees only)
  • on a few specific routes in the London area where only Travelcard fares exist
  • entirely within in the Liverpool zonal area
  • entirely within the West Midlands zonal area
  • entirely within Scotland.
To purchase through RST Online:
  • you must have a registered account. If you have not set this up please contact RST for your one-time passcode.
  • your season ticket will be fulfilled to your RST Season Ticket Smartcard. If you do not have one, we will issue you with one.
  • you will be able to continue purchasing your season tickets via RST Online without reapplying to RST unless your journey changes.

To purchase at a Ticket Office you will receive an authorisation form to take to a ticket office. There you can buy your season ticket and you will need a new authorisation form for all future season tickets. You will need to apply to Rail Staff Travel each time you want to buy a new Season Ticket.

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