Between London Terminals

[Spet0789]

If you have a ticket for a journey requiring a transfer between London Terminals, can you take any reasonable tube route? The example I have in mind is Stansted Express to Paddington, where it’s faster to cut the corner and take the tube from Tottenham Hale than to go to Liverpool Street and take the Elizabeth Line. I was wondering if as the latter is technically a National Rail line, there is some ticketing rule requiring that it be used.

As a further question, can you break that tube journey in the middle? We will be travelling at lunchtime and it may be good to stop in London for a meal.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Hadders]

You can take an any appropriate route between the relevent London Terminals. This can include the Elizabeth Line and Thameslink but you are not mandated to use them.

You can exit the tube journey en-route (although this isn't always straightforward as some staff will try and claim you can't) but if your ticket will not allow you to resume the underground portion of your journey.

 

[jfollows]

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/travel-information/travelling-in-london/ gives more information such as which stations you can use, including Tottenham Hale.
See attached.

Travel via London stations

Click to see the full list of stations where you can use your ticket
Abbey Wood
Aldgate
Amersham
Baker Street
Balham
Bank
Barking
Battersea Power Station
Blackfriars
Blackhorse Road
Brixton
Canada Water
Cannon Street
Charing Cross
Ealing Broadway
Edgware Road
Elephant & Castle
Embankment
Euston
Euston Square
Farringdon
Finsbury Park
Greenwich (DLR)
Highbury & Islington
Kensington Olympia
Kentish Town
Kings Cross St Pancras
Lancaster Gate
Lewisham (DLR)
Limehouse
Liverpool Street
London Bridge
Marylebone
Moorgate
Old Street
Paddington
Queens Park
Richmond
Seven Sisters
Shadwell
Shepherds Bush
Southwark
Stratford
Stratford International (DLR)
Tottenham Hale
Tower Hill
Upminster
Vauxhall
Victoria
Walthamstow Central
Waterloo
West Brompton
West Ham
West Hampstead
Whitechapel
Wimbledon
Woolwich Arsenal (DLR)
Woolwich (Elizabeth line)
You are allowed to break your transfer journey once and leave the Underground, Elizabeth line or DLR at any intermediate station. For example, if you are travelling on the Underground between Victoria and Euston, you can exit at Oxford Circus. However, if you subsequently wish to continue your journey by Underground you will have to purchase another ticket or use pay as you go to travel to Euston.

 

[Spet0789]

Many thanks! This is perfect.

 

[Haywain]

can you break that tube journey in the middle?

You can leave the underground intermediately, but you will have to pay to continue your journey.