Staff/Staff Nominee Oyster Card Validity

All LU services.
All TfL contracted bus services - those with the roundel sticker on the front - including where they run outside Greater London.
All DLR services
All London Overground services including to Watford Junction and Cheshunt
All TfL Rail services from Liverpool Street to Shenfield
All Tramlink services

Chiltern Trains - Marylebone to Amersham
C2C - Fenchurch Street to Upminster (not valid on those few trains that run via Stratford to Liverpool St)
TSGN - Finsbury Park to Moorgate (NOT valid from F Park into Kings Cross)
TSGN - Kentish Town to London Bridge / Elephant and Castle (note that Thameslink does not currently serve London Bridge)
Greater Anglia - Liverpool Street to Stratford only
London Midland - Euston to Watford Junction only. NOT valid on Watford to Clapham Junction trains operated by fellow Govia company Southern, you must use London Overground trains and change at Willesden Junction.

You can't use TOC services where they parallel bits of the Overground - for example New Cross Gate to West Croydon or Queens Rd Peckham - Denmark Hill or Stratford - Romford - Shenfield fast trains run by Abellio Greater Anglia.

I believe you get a discount on River Services and the Dangleway if you show a valid staff pass.

You should get a paper document with your passes that explains the validity of the passes. You obviously have to be careful not to misuse the passes as they can be withdrawn if such is discovered. I've done the above from memory so if I've missed any bits I am sure other forum members will correct me.

'NOT valid on Watford to Clapham Junction trains operated by fellow Govia company Southern'

Did not know this

I thought the booking phone number was actually Eurostar not TfL. Has the process changed? I've only ever used it once.

And a related question on Eurostar discounts - are they confined to the Brussels and Paris services or can you now get a discounted fare on the Ski train and the new Marseilles service? I'm way out of date on this and don't know if the scope of the offer has been expanded or not.

Possibly - sometimes it takes them a while to update the software to accept staff passes, when converting over to TfL, but it will only be a temporary thing.

Shenfield is run by Abellio and they don't allow staff passes through willy nilly. I believe the same applies at New Cross run by South Eastern. In both cases you have to be "passed" manually through the gateline. It's all a bit pathetic IMO but I'm sure they can justify it to themselves.

Not surprising, since it would appear from the list above that they are not valid on any South Eastern services - so the only stations you could conceivably use them are Greenwich, Woolwich Arsenal and New Cross, where TfL services are behind the same barrier line as SET's .

I guess Abellio's caution at Shenfield is to stop you using AGA services - if you try to exit the station when there hasn't been a TfL train for a while a human inspector might smell a rat where a ticket gate would not. It seems a bit petty though.

Priv, in this instance, referring to a PTAC (Privileged Travel Authority Card) rather than the 'everyday' TfL Staff pass, which *is not* valid on SET.

Another gateline that requires a manual swipe-through is Clapham Junction, whilst we're listing them!

I can't see any such restrictions on the "Ticket Restrictions" document published by TfL Staff Travel.