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Old February 16th 10, 02:54 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
Mizter T Mizter T is offline
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On Feb 16, 2:44*pm, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:

On 16 Feb, 14:22, Mizter T wrote:

On Feb 16, 1:59*pm, MIG wrote:
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Can one get a season to Watford Junction stored on Oyster anyway? *I
think that would settle that point, but not explain the things that
were said. *I wonder if the conversation would have been different on
a journey to Harrow and Wealdstone on a train that stopped there?


No, I'm 99.9% sure one can't - rail-only seasons aren't available on
Oyster, nor are outboundary Travelcard seasons.


You can from most Oyster enabled ticket machines. On National Rail
machines it is referred to as Zone 10 (with no mention of Zone W or
Watford Junction)


OK, well perhaps I'm 99.9% wrong!

I recall seeing zone 10 mentioned now on an NR ticket machine, I think
I pondered at the time whether it was just a shoddy implementation.
Well, it is shoddy implementation, in that how the hell is a passenger
supposed to know that zone 10 means Watford Junction? And does it mean
Grays (aka "zone G") as well?