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[email protected] · July 3rd 11, 10:54 AM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Peter Smyth) wrote:

If you search for a journey between any two random stations in
London, it should give an in-boundary travelcard as one of the fare
options.

OK, that sort of works as long as I make it a return journey. Not very
clear, especially as some options give two Anytime Travelcard options
at different prices without explanation.

It's not entirely clear what you're trying to do but if I was doing
something similar from Brighton and assuming all travel was
off-peak it would probably be two Brighton to Zones 1-6
travelcards for the days I was travelling from and to Brighton,
plus a travelcard or two (sold by Southern as something like
Battersea Park to Zones 1-3) for the day(s) I was staying in London.

It might be possible to sacrifice some flexibility and save a quid
or two by purchasing AP booked-train-only tickets to get from
Brighton to Victoria and back (and then buying two more travelcards
for travel within London) but I very much doubt this would be worth
doing.

How does an off-peak return from Brighton compare with a Day Travelcard?
The extra is quite small from Cambridge, to the point that buying a
travelcard in London with an off-peak return would be cheaper. I would use
Oyster but for the fear of timing out. There's a limit to how much gricing
I can do because of the early evening appointments which I need to get to
on time.

I wonder how legitimate it would be use a Cambridge-Zone 3 ticket via
Highbury and Islington, the NLL, WLL and SWT to Putney, for example? What
about Whitechapel, ELL, NLL, WLL and SWT to Putney? I'll have a bike with
me so prefer to avoid the tube.

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Colin Rosenstiel