On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:59:53 +0100, Mark Bestley
wrote:

Arthur Figgis wrote:

On 01/09/2011 16:10, tim.... wrote:
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On 31/08/2011 15:00, tim.... wrote:
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On Aug 31, 11:16 am, Tristán
wrote:
If you're on the move, no smartphone or ipad to hand, and normally
no
staff anywhere, how does one know whether one will be charged a
"tube"
fair from an NR station or a rail fair?

There is a map here...

In the case of Epsom Downs (and Tattenham Corner) I think it could
have
been a case of tidying things up by bringing the whole of each
branch into
the zones, rather than having loose ends hanging out over the edge..
Epsom
itself is a slightly different situation, as there are non-London
ways in
and out (and if Epsom comes in, it's not far to Leatherhead. But
seeing as
the trains run through to Dorking, why not end there? And while we
are in
Dorking, there's not actually that many trains on the line to
Horsham, so
why not... and thus serious mission creep appears).


I'm aware of why Epsom Downs, Tattenham Corner and Caterham were
included,
though it still doesn't make sense. If this was about tidying up
terminating lines that go just over the boundary (and it's a pretty
big
stretch to say that the TC and Caterham lines go *just* over) what
about
Sheperton?

An obvious difference is that Shepperton is SWT, while the others are
Southern - maybe Southern played decided to nice(r)?


Ewell West and Hampton Court are SWT

But Hampton Court is only just over the river from being inside Greater
London (less than 200m walk from the station entrance) and the Palace is a
large tourist attraction, so it makes sense for this terminus to be
included. I think that it got moved into zone 6 a lot earlier than many of
the other boundary stations, it may even have been before privatisation.


Tattenham Corner is just about walking distance to Epsom Downs, could
there be risk of skewing journey patterns if one was Oyster and one
wasn't?

But why were the Ewells included in zone 6?


That's a good question.

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