Some while ago, I had cause to try to understand Oyster fares on NR.

After some searching https://www.tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-pay.../national-rail gave the map and faretables.

Not too easy to follow for a layman.

DRH



On Sunday, 3 August 2014 20:35:01 UTC+1, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at

11:32:32 on Sun, 3 Aug 2014, remarked:

Are current Oyster fares from central London to Harold Wood and

Brentwood identical (a "mid-Essex" zone) and if so what would Oyster

charge for a journey from Harold Wood to Brentwood?



Poor example as Harold Wood is within Greater London.



I meant Brentwood and Shenfield, sorry.



The single fare finder gives results that put Brentwood "beyond" zone

9.



And Shenfield "way beyond"?



The problem is the allocation of special zones for NR destinations

beyond zone 6. That eats up the additional zones that Oyster can cope

with.



How many zones can it cope with? Have you heard 15 too?



If TfL pricing could be applied to the extensions then there would be

three existing zones that could be tacked on to each line out of London.



That makes sense with the 15 minus 12 I mentioned earlier. But how does

Oyster handle fares from one of those "three on line A out of London"

and one of those "three on line B out of London"? Or doesn't it matter

if for example every "first station on one of the lines" is the same

price, and every "second station" and every "third station". In effect

three extra zones circling the Capital.

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Roland Perry