London Banter - View Single Post - SWT & NR - from deep alliance to deep something else

Roland Perry · September 29th 17, 11:37 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 05:41:23
on Fri, 29 Sep 2017, remarked:

For example, from where I live (within the NSE area) the first trains
I can use a

Senior Card: depart 08:58, arr London 10:13 (1st opportunity to
arrive
after 10am)

Network Card: depart 10:07, arr London 11:32 (1st opportunity to
depart
after 10am)

in practice, one would get the next, and faster, train:

depart 10:25, arr London 11:35.

The Senior card has the same restriction as an Off-peak ticket,
whereas the Network Card is so restricted as to be useless for doing
anything in London before noon.

Roland is correct, if a bit Ely-centric. From Cambridge one can be at King's
Cross just after 11.

It's no so much *Ely* centric, as *distance from London-centric*,
although due to a combination of timetable quirks and perhaps some
easements, it doesn't get "worse" [than 11:35] all the way to Kings
Lynn.
--
Roland Perry