Recent content by pelli

I believe it has been established that the OP was interchanging from National Rail to Underground at West Ham, and incorrectly tapped their card on the standalone yellow validators at the bottom of the stairs coming down from the National Rail platforms, when the correct course of action was to...

While your understanding that incomplete journeys are charged some sort of (non-zero) maximum fare is correct for a simple Oyster card with PAYG, it is definitely not correct for an Oyster card with a Travelcard loaded. Here is a journey (anonymised) I made recently tapping in at a station...

TfL's "Free travel areas without Oyster adult accompanying map" shows a vast network in South London, including Richmond - Clapham Junction - Surbiton, labelled as "5-10 Zip Oyster photocard required to travel free". I'll leave it to the forum experts to decide whether this means that it's an...

Given that Single, Return and Flexi Season tickets all cost a fixed amount per day of travel, I thought it was easier to just convert the Weekly Season to a daily price for comparison, with a pattern-dependent conversion rate*, rather than having to pattern-dependent-convert all the daily-priced...

The Disabled Persons Railcard yields a 33.4% discount without time restrictions, which often allows Anytime Day Returns (assuming you can't avoid the morning peak) to undercut season ticket fares. In this case, as pointed out by Crithylum, the Anytime Day Return with railcard is £42.45, which...

My apologies, my suggestion doesn't work because you can't break your journey overnight on the outbound leg of the tickets (unless the journey couldn't be completed in one day, but that's a tricky rule to exploit so I wouldn't recommend it...). I'll edit my post accordingly. Haywain's original...

I believe the Group 3 Return ticket is only available in Anytime form so there's no risk that you'd mistakenly get an Off-Peak version, but you should check that the price you're charged is £75.80. You can also buy the ticket online from your favourite website, selecting the specific trains you...

With some luck and skill* the OP might have made it from Paddington Platform 8 at 06:38 onto Hammersmith & City Line train #275, which stood at Paddington from 06:42½ for 2m7s and arrived King's Cross St Pancras at 06:55¼, and thence to King's Cross Platform 5 by 2 minutes before 07:03. *This...

Indeed, between Gatwick Airport and Haywards Heath even the Anytime Day Return at £10.30 is below the Network Railcard minimum fare of £13.00, so on a weekday the ticket would not be discountable by a Network Railcard at all. Hence, all cases of applying a 16-25 or 26-30 railcard to this journey...

Stansted Express is actually relatively slow (at least 46 minutes from Liverpool Street to Stansted Airport), making it "farther away" than Gatwick (at 40 minutes on Thameslink from Farringdon to Gatwick Airport), even if you don't include the extra 3 minutes on the Elizabeth line from...

I got Trainsplit to offer the £88 Off-peak Return on a 62-hour journey setting off Friday evening and arriving Monday lunchtime, by adding 600 minutes extra change time at Norwich, Diss, Stowmarket, Needham Market and Ipswich. So if you really wanted to you could get an itinerary that shows your...

However you do it, there will be one direction where T4 trains will "only be able to" carry T4 passengers while T23+T5 passengers all have to squeeze onto T5 trains. Currently, this is heading towards Heathrow, and means that T23 passengers board "any Heathrow train" in Central London (spread...

If I understand correctly, you use a separate ticket Ipswich to Shenfield, then are supposed to change to Elizabeth Line at Shenfield to make your way into Central London on your TfL Staff Oyster, but you have on some occasions instead stayed on the Greater Anglia train all the way to Liverpool...

The Avanti West Coast Delay Repay portal allows you to upload multiple tickets in one claim, explicitly to cover the case where "you are also claiming on behalf of a travelling companion or a group" (and/or if you have split tickets). Since you are only giving one set of journey details everyone...

The forum had a long thread in 2021 for a case in which a (non-TfL) Train Operating Company employee was ultimately dismissed after their spouse was caught misusing a spouse travel pass for commuting (which is not allowed by the terms and conditions of that particular pass). Not all details of...