N BUS Ticket extension?

[Bob]

Can you board a West midlands bound bus in Cannock, eg 1/2/2A/32/33 Walsall, 68/70 Wolverhampton, X31 Birmingham and buy an N Bus ticket with a small add on? It would be a great help if you could!!!

[Tony]

Arriva used to have it programmed into their machines as a Centro add on for single journies over the boundary, don't know if they still do

[Bob]

is that if your purchasing an n bus from Cannock?

[Tony]

is that if your purchasing an n bus from Cannock?

Yes, I live in Cannock and have an nNetwork pass, Arriva used to have a special add on single/return to the county boundary. I haven't needed to use one for a couple of years, so don't know for definate if they still have. They used to sell nBus + extra tickets on the Cannock-Wolverhampton route as well for the people of Featherston

[Discodave]

is that if your purchasing an n bus from Cannock?

Yes, I live in Cannock and have an nNetwork pass, Arriva used to have a special add on single/return to the county boundary. I haven't needed to use one for a couple of years, so don't know for definate if they still have. They used to sell nBus + extra tickets on the Cannock-Wolverhampton route as well for the people of Featherston

Tony going on when I last spoke to a long standing driver the nubus + extra is now stopped you can buy the bus/metro ticket in featherstone and coven/brewood for no extra cost and use it there and back any further its a sorry I am afraid as the fares were done so it costs basically as if you had no nbus ticket plus returns were dropped a while ago when i was there on the old wayfarers

[Bob]

Just shows what a crap system we have!

[woody38]

you can get an Nbus add on, ask the driver for a nbuss add on my brother got one on thursday, it costs £2.20 each way for the bit from the West Midlands boundary to Cannock plus £4.00 for the nbus.

[Bob]

can u do it the other way? ie get the bus in cannock and buy the add on b4 u get to west midlands

[Tony]

you can get an Nbus add on, ask the driver for a nbuss add on my brother got one on thursday, it costs £2.20 each way for the bit from the West Midlands boundary to Cannock plus £4.00 for the nbus.

£4.40 for the add on to get to Cannock now! The add on to the nNetwork ticket on the train to Cannock is about 80p. It looks like it would be cheaper to get at Daytripper+rail add on to Cannock and get exactly the same travel in the West Midlands with the added bonus of rail!

[Discodave]

basically that what the fare is from cannock to the boundry so how can it be an add on 80p is a lot more farer as I said there is no add on at all it was ditched ages ago and I would use the train to add

[Discodave]

can u do it the other way? ie get the bus in cannock and buy the add on b4 u get to west midlands

no see above post

[vinh1000]

thanks for this information
though I have a nnetwork if i use it on service 70 the arriva driver generally does not care and allows the ticket to travel full route to Cannock or Wolverhampton
Route 68 however only from essignton it is valid
Seems that nNetwork has a wider boundary than nBus but the info in the post makes me reconsider whether cheaper to get a nBus or nNetwork

[Bob]

Stupid crap boundary rules its pathetic! and they want people to use public transport!

[vinh1000]

Stupid crap boundary rules its pathetic! and they want people to use public transport!

Yeah sometimes its really odd as I tried to board the X31 a few yards from the boundary (since I had problem with the leg) and driver expects me to pay something over £2 to travel a few yards to the WM boundarys :S

[MW]

Stupid crap boundary rules its pathetic! and they want people to use public transport!

It's common sense to be honest.