They could charge the fare to ignore the fact you've gone through Kennington if they so wished. And Shoreditch High Street was placed in Zone 1 specifically so they could charge extra, otherwise they would have placed it in Zone 2
Do you have any concrete proof that that is the case?
Shoreditch High Street (SDC) had to be in zone 1 or there would have been massive revenue loss from South, East and North London. The new station is significantly nearer to Liverpool Street than the old one was, and a lot more accessible being a through station.
They set the fares, so there's nothing technically stopping them from doing that
I think that this is worthy of note might have been a discussion point in the past, or subject of complaints here or to your site.
Is that your opinion, or do you have concrete proof?
They'd have to walk to Oval, which is a bit further than West Brompton.
Norwood Junction to Greenwich, tapping the pink reader at Canada Water, is assumed to go via National Rail at London Bridge, even though tapping the pink reader proves you didn't (although that was some time ago - don't know whether that is still the case).
There is only one defined route for Norwood Junction to Greenwich so it doesn't matter what pink readers you touch. Pink readers and OSIs only affect the fare if the route has been defined in the database.
Well obviously. But look at this the other way, if they start ignoring zones travelled through they will get inundated with complaints from other users. The system is consistent, you will always be charged for every zone travelled through on the most likely default route, or the route actually taken where that is defined separately.
There are a great many cases where you're charged a fare that's higher than expected with the number of zones you actually use. On one occasion I found this out myself I travelled from Barking to Essex Road changing at Blackhorse Road and Highbury & Islington with appropriate pink taps. I was charged for travel via zone 1. When I wrote to query this, highlighting that I'd done the same thing but between Barking and Highbury & Islington only, i.e. without continuing to Essex Road, and had then been charged the non zone one fare, the response was simply that I'd been charged the correct fare for my journey and if I wanted the lower fare I'd need to go via Stratford. I didn't do so in future because it felt less convenient to me to go that way than changing at Blackhorse Road.
At a guess presumably the cheaper route from Norwood Junction to Greenwich avoiding zone one, similarly with the one from Barking to Essex Road, could in fact be added if the correct person were spoken to rather than dealing with the customer service.
If the journey involves one of the TOCs then TfL would need to get approval. They could probably introduce Norwood Junction to Greenwich via Canada Water and Canary Wharf, but would anyone actually make that much of a detour?
Yes they will (it’s been reported elsewhere). If BAK remains in Zone 2, it may create an opportunity for some Railcard travellers in that area to benefit from the afternoon peak concession by doing a same station exit at BAK before tapping in at Battersea Power Station. But since as you say there’s no precedent for cross zonal OSIs it’s hard to know for sure.
Bromley North to South?
I stand corrected. Certainly a highly niche OSI (though arguably no more so than my suggestion!).
Admittedly decades before current fare structures, but used to walk between the two on a twice daily basis when I commuted contraflow, although never knew of anyone else doing it.
