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I'm not much of a flyer, but if I were catching a plane I'd be so worried about missing it that I'd probably allow so much contingency time I'd be fine if the once-hourly bus didn't run and I had to catch the next one!

A cross-London ticket should normally have the LU leg sandwiched between two NR legs rather than ending on LU so wouldn't be technically valid by that route; it should be to U12. Noting though that all tickets Sunderland-Finsbury Park have the Maltese cross, I suspect it's a pragmatic solution...

The 724 is currently rather less crowded as Hatfield Uni term has ended.

It must be pretty common - as baz962 mentions - for staff to get through a gateline using a pass which opens the gates, when they are actually travelling using a different pass/ticket that needs gateline staff intervention to be allowed through (or even just for the convenience of tapping on a...

The word "commuter" is often used in the media just to mean normal passengers. They're possibly envisaging the KWVR being used by tourists going to Haworth or by shoppers, as much as people heading to work at 8am and home again at 5.

"London group tfl" might well be an outcome of the fix, but I'm pretty sure it isn't a necessary outcome and only says that because someone typed text intended perhaps for internal reference in a public-facing field. It could just as easily say something helpful (or at least familiar) such as...

More details of the exact journey times would help, along with a screenshot of the SWR "My transactions" info which should give at least a clue. I can't see a logical charge lower than £23.00 for the Portsmouth journey, and anything with an odd 5p looks like a Railcard or Priv fare so wouldn't...

When I worked near the team who set up the various Photocard schemes, several of them had children of the relevant age. You'd sometimes see their offsprings' photos on example Photocards, and they were perfectly aware of "real life".

Rounding rules is definitely one reason; the change wasn't well communicated. LU POMs also don't take 5p pieces so an odd 5p is rounded down even if paying by card. Another reason is that for some journeys there is more than one agreed way to set the fare. Anything involving a section of line...

No TVM can use fuzzy logic to work out what a passenger really means when they ask for a ticket to London (though that will matter less if Travelcards do get abolished), or patiently explain the bits of any ticket's conditions that are likely to be relevant to the passenger's plans without...

The audio in the online clip really does sound far more like someone using a loudhailer in the car than the train PA.

So was I for Essex. I can't see any benefit to TfL from putting the Epping branch into Zone 6; it would just reduce the extra income they were getting anyway from people driving from bits of Essex to the end of the Central line rather to their nearest National Rail station with a poorer and...

For me, good connections at Duffield don't matter so much - and planned ones can easily go astray anyway - if there's something to help pass the time while waiting (watching the run-round, light refreshments/a shop/somewhere warm to wait and a welcoming face). What I don't want is to arrive at...

I'd say it's the ticket coding being wrong then. A change to the data held by the gates would affect all cross-London tickets used at that station, and gateline staff at Paddington and Euston Square would be howling pretty quickly.

(edited following previous post) This sounds odd. LU gates don't actually analyse the journey, just giving one journey between any 2 LU stations on the cross-London list; it keeps the coding simpler and LU don't lose out if you do a different LU leg from the one relevant to your full journey so...

In addition to the above advice, there is anyway a longstanding arrangement allowing passengers with cross-London tickets such as yours to end the Underground part of the journey early then pay separately/walk to the onward mainline connection and continue the journey. Even if the LU staff...

I'd always thought the "O" in SOR/FOR stood for Ordinary; Open isn't a term I remember being used at all back in the day and does just seem to cause confusion. I seem to remember such tickets were valid for 3 months rather than just one.

Correct. The necessary settings nearly got put in a couple of years back but the project seemed to fizzle out. Can't remember quite why, possibly a bit of funding was needed but no-one could work out where from. All very silly.

I'm intrigued by the claimed value of the free TfL travel. There's no directly comparable priced ticket as it's not valid on most NR services but does cover TfL out to both Reading and Shenfield. It's only in practice worth the amount of travel you actually make with it, and even then you should...

That really is being stingy! For tea in particular the cost saving to Cross Country is negligible (same tea bag, a little less hot water and a marginally cheaper paper cup). Just not worth doing for the negative PR.