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Phil · February 7th 04, 08:30 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway

(Jeremy Barker) wrote in message . com...
"Chris Read" wrote in message ...
Peter Smyth wrote:

The Watford Junction travelcard is valid on the fast Silverlink services
non-stop to Euston while if you buy a return to Hatch End you will have to
travel on a service that stops there.

Are you sure about that? I thought the usual rules concerning multiple
tickets covering a single journey (ie the train must stop at the station
where you change tickets) did not apply to the London zonal system, and
therefore 'fast' trains could be used. Or does this easement only apply to
zonal *season* tickets (ie not one day travelcards etc)?

When switching between two tickets you must travel on a train that
stops at the changeover station unless one of the tickets is a season
ticket OR both tickets are zonal tickets. A zonal ticket is one which
includes a zone boundary in some way - either for travel within a zone
or by being for travel from a zone boundary to some other point. One
Day Travelcards are zonal tickets but not season tickets. Travelcard
season tickets are both season tickets and zonal tickets. No kind of
easement is involved.

Well then there are some very confused ticket sellers at Liverpool St
I used to travel to Harlow from Greenford.
It was cheapest to buy a four zone one Day and then boundary 4
extention but many times they gave me an Angle Rd to Harlow SDR which
was the same price. No RPI on WAGN ever questioned this despite the
fact I never stopped at Angle Rd
Then I did the same to Crawley and the on train guards would sell me
a Selhurst day return but i never went to Selhurst in my life.
Curiously if I bought at Victoria they would give me a boundary four
even though i asked for the selhurst one as it was cheaper (BY 10 P)

To answer the original question the person who wishes to travel 10
times from boundary six to Watford and backon the same day would buy
the travel card
and not spend £30 on CDRs

HTH Phil