Hi, I'm travelling tomorrow from London Bridge to Pluckley on the 10:43 am. I hold an Oyster 60 plus card and am trying to find the TFL boundary zone station to buy my rail ticket from to Pluckley. Southeastern customer service and TFL have been unable to provide me this information. Advice is most welcome. Thank you.
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TFL zone boundary station Oyster 60 plus
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Mcr Warrior
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@jojojo. Welcome to the forum. Believe your train is routed via Knockholt, but should be possible for fares to be obtained from Boundary Zone 6 to/from Pluckley? (They are priced the same!)
Joe Paxton
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Out of curiosity, how did you approach Southeastern and TfL to ask about this?
As @Mcr Warrior suggests, you should buy a ticket from Boundary Zone 6 because (a) it's what they're intended for and (b) it eliminates the guessing game you're playing and the associated "does the train have to stop there" debate that naturally follows.
Ticket office staff may try to advise otherwise, stick your ground. It's part of the game you have to play having joined the "twirly" club
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Ticket office staff may try to advise otherwise, stick your ground. It's part of the game you have to play having joined the "twirly" club
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DynamicSpirit
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Thanks, I just tried it and it does indeed work on the Avanti site. That's very useful to know. I guess it's not trivial to implement because if you type in 'Boundary Zone 6' the booking site then has to guess what station you're actually going to travel from so it can look up trains. Interestingly, I just tried railforum's booking engine, tickets.railforums.com. For that one, you have to type in 'Zone 6' not 'Boundary Zone 6' but it than can't find any services (I'm guessing, maybe it's treating 'Zone 6' as the origin station and of course there is no such station therefore no services)
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