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Are you a Railway Pensioner? 

Still working in the Rail Industry and aged 55 or over?

The British Transport Pensioners' Federation is your organisation 

National Memorial Arboretum - please go to our News Page to read about a new project to establish a permanent Rail Industry Memorial.

Go to the Chairman's Page for Sam Reed's seasonal message. Spring/Summer 2010 message now available.

Check out our News Page for information and downloadable resources, including:

A recruitment poster for Noticeboards and Exhibitions

News of National Pensioners' Convention activities and regular Campaign Bulletins

Travel tips, including Arriva's bus service, calling at the National Memorial Arboretum

Money Savers - a few useful tips

Matinée Club - Sussex Branch invite all BTPF members to join their mailing list to obtain heavily discounted tickets for shows in London's West End (and some regional theatres). Go to Sussex Page for details of future events.

'Bite' Discount Card - click here for details of how to obtain a Bite Card, giving 20% discount at a wide range of food outlets at railway stations.

Oyster Card with Privs. on tube and rail fares - go to our News Page (Travel News) for details of how to get an Oyster Card, which will save you money on public transport in London.  Don't forget to 'renew' your Oyster Card each year by taking your new Rail Staff Travel Card to a LU Booking Office between 01 April and 30 June.

Reminder! - don't forget retired staff and widow(er)s can take up to four children aged 5 - 16 for £2 each on production of your Staff Travel Card, provided you are aged 60 or over.  (If Booking Office staff are not familiar with this concession, refer them to: Passenger Instruction Manual Section E, Page E5 Paragraph E2.7 and Page E18 Paragraph E14.)

Mayflower - an ER B1 loco photographed on the 
Nene Valley Railway by retired driver, Len Creak

Since it was formed in 1948, the British Transport Pensioners’ Federation has secured many financial benefits for railway pensioners and their dependants, as well as improvements to travel facilities for retired staff. We have representatives on the Board of Trustees and the Pensioners’ Committees of the Pensions Section ‘Closed Fund’ and the BR Superannuation Fund. We have also secured representation on the Pensioners' Committees of many of the new Funds applicable to the privatised railway.  

Our affiliation to the National Pensioners’ Convention enables us to add our strength to the campaign for improvements to the State Retirement Pension and associated benefits.

With its strong membership, the Federation is recognised by both Pension Fund Managers and government bodies as being truly representative of all railway pensioners. 

The Federation and its sixty local branches are run entirely by volunteers, who are themselves railway pensioners. But it’s not all meetings and campaigning! – some branches also organise social activities and keep in touch with members in their area.  

Yet to remain truly representative, and to have an even stronger voice, we need to continue increasing our numbers, especially among the ‘younger generation’ of pensioners and deferred pensioners. Membership is open to anyone in receipt of (or with deferred rights to) a railway pension and/or travel facilities, including widows and widowers of retired staff. Active staff aged 55 or over are also welcome to join our organisation and add their voice to the campaign to protect our pensions and privileges in retirement.

By joining one of our branches, you will be able to keep in touch with fellow pensioners and ex-colleagues and make new friends, as well as supporting the Federation’s voice and objectives. Membership fees vary from branch to branch, but are always very modest.

 

All branches appreciate new members who are willing to get involved with running the branch and organising activities
 - this way the Federation will continue to grow and thrive.

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Last modified:
26 July 2010