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You should be able to buy a straight 'combined' Maidenhead to London Zones 1-6 travelcard season ticket and commute on it from Forest Gate to Maidenhead and back each day - I don't think there is a stipulation that means you can't use it in the opposite direction to that primarily intended...

This afternoon after a ride out to the Essex coast I went to Shoeburyness station to return to South Tottenham by train. I had always intended to buy a single to Barking then use oyster PAYG for the GOBLIN leg on the assumption that this would be the cheapest thing to do but I wanted to check...

As far as Coventry goes I know some of the streets around Earlsdon towards Spencer Park are really quite nice and not a long walk from the station - lots of commuters in the area with the same sort of rationale you have. Rugby I'm not too sure about as I don't know it well.

If I take my Oyster to a newsagent I sometimes buy a couple of items with a tenner and ask the shopkeeper to put the change on the card. Don't think my payg account total has been a rounded number for years.

London bus route 3 runs down the A3 for all of 300 yards in Kennington. [The 219 runs along a length of the A219 between South Wimbledon tube and it's terminus in Wimbledon Town Centre.] - hadn't spotted someone already got this one. Buses Excetera's Surrey route 25 runs along the A25 between...

Those are renditions of the new TL class 700s, no?

Wanted to suggest the possibility of taking the Oxford tube to Victoria and two singles, but doing the maths this comes out barely cheaper than the straight return. Oxford tube next day return: £18 Victoria to East Grinstead off peak single: £13.10 East Grinstead to Victoria off peak single...

Tottenham Hale to Clapton. (Though there was until fairly recently one very early morning train that called at both - others will be able to advise if it still runs.)

Manor House or Arsenal are about 10 minutes walk from Finsbury Park. The Piccadilly Line is running fine in itself. I was intending to travel to Cambridge this afternoon, think I'll go via Tottenham Hale instead!

A few examples that come to mind from London makes me think so. By 2000 we had Metrobuses running around with moquette installed new in 1978. It looked tired (in some cases that would be a polite way of putting it), but it was still functioning. And there were some RMs on the road with moquette...

Slightly late to the party on this but the Upminster-Romford shuttle unit tends to evade the attention of a cleaner for long periods. The 317 out today was full of papers from yesterday.

Immediately post-peak on commuter trains, that's really about it AFAIK. Though I've often seen Friday metros and Standards on Sunday afternoon trains in Greater Anglia territory - presume that a few late paper readers were missed by the 'post peak' clean. Tends to only be the odd one, though.

There are going to be a few of these. The 331 passes a duck pond on Harefield Common. The 331 is also the only TfL route to leave London and re-enter twice, crossing four county boundaries and visiting two 'shires' in the process (Herts and Bucks). Unsurprisingly the historical route corridor...

I'd always assumed that the journey through Brixton was just quicker (not getting tangled up at the multi-way lights at Herne Hill, especially), but the driver's argument makes sense. I used the X68 for a while about 10 years ago and it generally travelled via Brixton then. Buses often...

I wonder if any stretch of road has seen as many route changes as the Tuffnell Park - Kings Cross corridor in recent years. Since the 1970s it has had the 239, then the C11, then the C12 in the 1990s, which was augmented by and then replaced completely by the 10, finally becoming the 390 in...

I have one route in mind, though it had pass acceptance and mostly ran within London it doesn't count as a true LT/TfL example. The 1990s-incarnation Lea Valley 363 (Tottenham Hale - Hammond Street via a vast swathe of suburban N London and Cheshunt) had two distinct sections on a Sunday...

The 4 was the last 'conventional' TfL route to operate with step entrance vehicles, fielding a few AV class Olympians until Christmas 2005. TfL forced Metroline's hand by getting them to hire in Tridents from First. The longest 'stage' bus service to operate within the London area is the 724...

Angel Road in north London, has gone down from 1tph for most of the day Mon-Sat (with a few extra peak trains) to 1-2tph peak hours and early evenings only, Mon-Fri only. Also all bar one train runs to Stratford now instead of a London terminal, although the opportunity for interchange to other...

Beyond routes already discussed, the 216 travelled beyond Staines to Thorpe Park on summer Sundays until the early 2000s. And the 246 still extends from Westerham to Chartwell House on summer Sundays. While not TfL routes in any real sense, the 'LT pass friendly' (within London) Thamesway...

I can't be bothered to go over the route on gmaps pedometer or similar, but I wonder if the N89/N9 contest hinges on the double run into Heathrow Central that the N9 makes, and whether 'both ways' through the tunnel is counted for the N9 for each direction. It could be that close - both routes...