London Banter - View Single Post - Off-peak hours on Oyster?

]v[etaphoid · April 30th 13, 02:14 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 06/03/13 07:03, wrote:
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(Recliner) wrote:

wrote:
According to TfL's Single Fare Finder, I can get a railcard
discount only outside peak hours, quoted as from 0630 to 0930 and
from 1600 to 1900.

Yet my journey history for yesterday clearly shows journey details
as: 16:02 - 16:19 Waterloo [London Underground / National Rail] to
Liverpool Street [London Underground] charged at £1.40.

Anyone here understand why?

Just an idea, but I think it sometimes gives you off-peak rates slightly
into peak times, presumably to allow for small errors in the system clock.

That was the only rational explanation I could think of. I thought as I came
out of my meeting in Smith Square that there was no way I could get into the
tube before 4 so got a 507 bus (free to me) to Waterloo. I touched in
somewhere in the bowels of Waterloo on my way to the W&C platform.

I was also once touched somewhere in the bowels on just such a transport...