Avantix for Dummies

This is a list of useful codes for the Avantix Traveller "National Fares Information CD" (now available as a download, free account required, from here, the Brfares online manual, and a dwindling number of online journey planner sites. eg https://trainscanbecheaper.info 1) For an "Out-boundary Travelcard" - that is, a travelcard whose origin is outside the London Zones, use destination code 0035 2) For a single-trip ticket to an Underground destination further than the London terminal, use codes: (Note that in 2022/23 not all of the below may have a price, depending on the origin station, and few - if any - online booking sites now issue tickets to these codes) 0785 Underground Zone 1 0790 Underground Zone 12 0793 Underground Zone 2 0791 Underground Zone 123 0797 Underground Zone 23 0830 Underground Zone 3 0792 Underground Zone 1234 0825 Underground Zone 234 0835 Underground Zone 34 0065 Underground Zone 1245 0066 Underground Zone 2345 0067 Underground Zone 345 0786 Underground Zone 1256 0829 Underground Zone 2356 0839 Underground Zone 3456 0841 Underground Zone 4 0069 Underground Zone 5 0070 Underground Zone 6 0068 Underground Zone 45 0847 Underground Zone 56 0844 Underground Zone 456 (At the time of writing v1.0 of this guide, in around 2010, I had not seen any prices at all, for the six immediately above) 3) For a single-trip starting from the London Boundary Zone, use codes: 0041 BZ2 0043 BZ4 0072 BZ6 0042 BZ3 0044 BZ5 (Not all of the above may have a price, depending on the destination station). 4) For tickets to/from St Pancras on HS1 (the so-called 'southeastern highspeed' service), use code 1072 5) For walk-up tickets to Thameslink stations in the centre of London, where available don't use "London Terminals" Instead use London Thameslink code 4452. nb. These tickets are to Farringdon, City Thameslink, London Blackfriars, London Bridge, Elephant & Castle. 6) For National Rail tickets to Heathrow, use code H584. These are valid to all three stations, via the free inter-terminal rail service 7) For CIV tickets [some with unrestricted peak-time travel, and with guaranteed onward connections to Eurostar] to/from London St Pancras use code 5470 The following have not been individually checked for acceptance of Avantix codes: Online ticket vendors, Great British Rail Sale April 2022 Avanti West Coast C2C Chiltern Railways CrossCountry East Midlands Railway Grand Central Greater Anglia Great Northern Great Western Railway Hull Trains LNER My Train Ticket Northern Omio RailEasy Railsmartr Redspottedhanky South Western Railway Southeastern Southeastern High Speed Southern Thameslink thetrainline.com Trainhugger TrainPal Traintickets TransPennine Express Trip West Midlands Railway Additional online ticket sites Caledonian Sleeper Eurostar Gatwick Express Happy Rail Heathrow Express Island Line London Overground/Underground/TfL Rail Lumo Merseyrail Scotrail Split My Fare Split Ticketing Split Your Ticket Stansted Express Strathclyde Partnership for Transport Ticketysplit Trains Can Be Cheaper Trainsplit Transport for Greater Manchester Transport for Wales Travel South Yorkshire (Zoom) Tyne and Wear Metro (Nexus) West Midlands Centro/Network Last updated June 2022