On 25/02/2012 13:30, Graham Nye wrote:
On 25/02/2012 09:01, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 25/02/2012 01:01, Graham Nye wrote:

Can't you buy tickets for the entire journey at your initial station?
Buying a through ticket should also get you your Tube ticket (shows an
extra + on your ticket) so you won't have to buy that separately.
(At an extortionate £4 each way - Boris doesn't like non-Oystered
non-Londoners passing through his territory.)

At least you /can/ pass through London, unlike, say, Paris.


In the sense of your through rail tickets not covering the Métro
connection, presumably? (I haven't tried that combination.)

Obviously, because it isn't possible, to the bemusement of countless
Britons told that foreign railways are so much better and more
integrated and customer focused...

Still a single Métro ticket is only 1.70 euros (£1.46) which is rather
more reasonable than the Boris fine if you don't order through tickets
across London.

But the Delanoë fine involves playing hunt the ticket machine, followed
by hunt the right sort of machine, followed by hunt the ticket window
when the machine farts in the general direction of your foreign bank
card, long queues, and navigating an atrium designed by Escher. All
while fending off beggars, which aren't supposed to exist abroad because
they didn't have Mrs T to invent poverty.

And Oyster pre-dates Boris. In fact the concept predates Ken...

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK