Money back guarantee

You can ask for refunds on as many tickets as you like, but if they’re all on the same booking we can’t separate them for the purposes of issuing refunds. 

So if you don’t know whether you’ll need all your tickets, you can book each part of your trip separately. This means you can collect only the tickets you need and the rest will still be covered by the money-back guarantee. 

If you can’t use the money back guarantee you can still ask for a refund, but you may have to pay a £5 administration fee.

The guarantee doesn’t cover:

• DaySave tickets
• Advance tickets
• Season tickets
• tickets bought on key smartcards or as eTickets

And you won’t be covered if you:

• buy your tickets at the station
• get your tickets posted to you
• have already collected your tickets from the ticket machine

Find out more about asking for a refund.

1. This offer is valid for tickets booked on southernrailway.com for any journey and for travel on any train operator, for the following ticket types: 

• Anytime
• Anytime Day
• Off-Peak
• Off-Peak Day
• Super Off-Peak Day 

The money back guarantee does not apply to any tickets purchased as eTickets or on The Key Smartcard.

2. Other ticket types are not included in this offer. Other ticket types include: DaySave, Season Tickets and Advance tickets

3. The guarantee also applies to Child tickets, Railcard discounted tickets, and any other discounted tickets, subject to the terms and conditions of the Railcard or discount offered

4. This offer is only valid for paper tickets purchased online at southernrailway.com with ‘Ticket on Departure’ as the delivery option, and the tickets have not been collected. We therefore advise you not to collect your tickets until you are certain you wish to use them

5. If you wish to book tickets for multiple trips in a single transaction on southernrailway.com, we advise that in order for your tickets to qualify for the money back guarantee, that you book the tickets you need for each trip in separate transactions. Otherwise, when you collect your tickets from the machine in the station for your first trip, it will give you all the tickets for all the journeys you booked so invalidating them for the money back guarantee

6. To apply for a refund of your ticket please view our refund pages

If you do collect your paper tickets from a Ticket On Departure or Ticket Vending Machine at the station, then standard refund rules will apply and you will be charged the normal £5 refund administrative fee per booking. Advance tickets are not refundable

7. All refund requests under the money back guarantee should be made within 28 days of the expiry date of the ticket

8. There is no limit to the number of times you can apply for a refund under the money back guarantee so long as the tickets you bought online via southernrailway.com are Anytime, Anytime Day, Off-Peak, Off-Peak Day, or Super Off-Peak Day tickets

9. We aim to process all refunds within 10 working days. All refunds have to be processed back to customers according to the original payment method. If you purchased your ticket using a debit/credit card, a member of the Refunds team will contact you by telephone to obtain your card details in order to process the refund