page_title: Family and Friends Railcard
section_title: Tickets issued with a Railcard
hierarchical_section_title: Family and Friends Railcard / Tickets issued with a Railcard
caption_attribution_description: English: A Railway Ticket for Southport to Ainsdale
context_page_description: The Family and Friends Railcard is an annual rail travel discount card for use in Great Britain by adults travelling with at least one child. Cards valid for either one or three years can be purchased at a cost of £30 for one year or £70 for three. It is one of the discounted and concessionary fare schemes available on Britain's railway network to people who either belong to particular groups or who are willing to buy tickets ahead of the date of travel. Before 18 May 2008 it was known as the Family Railcard, but the name was changed to reflect the fact that discounted travel is not restricted to adults and children who are related.
context_section_description: On the APTIS, PORTIS/SPORTIS and other computerised ticket issuing systems, a "status code" field is provided on each ticket issued.  This is left blank if an adult is travelling at full (undiscounted) fare; but if any discount or other special condition applies, a code of up to five letters appears.
  Since the introduction of the APTIS and PORTIS systems in 1986, an adult ticket bought with a Family Railcard has always been identified with the code FAM.  This has continued since the introduction of various "New Generation" systems that have superseded these.  The code used for child tickets has varied, however.  Usually, CHFAM is used; but during some of the changeover periods between different versions of the Railcard, FAMCH has been used as well.  In these circumstances, one code has been used for tickets issued against the "original" Railcard, and the other has been used for those issued with the "new" version.  CHFAM was used exclusively again once all of the "original" Railcards had expired.  This happened after both the 1990 and the 2000 changes to the Railcard conditions.
caption: An adult railway ticket bought with a Family & Friends Railcard. Note the FAM code in the top left
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