Paul Weaver wrote:
On May 13, 6:42 pm, Mr Thant
wrote:

On 13 May, 18:21, David Howdon

wrote:

So I went through zone 5 on this occasion but was not charged the extra.
Whilst I am obviously happy to save the money (and am unlikely to
proactively pursue TfL to give them it) it does occur to me that this
could be seen as fare evasion.
So what should I have done differently in order to avoid evasion? Were
there some within station Oyster touch-plates at Rayner's Lane that I
missed?

This has been discussed here a few times before. Basically, Oyster
appears to have no mechanism for varying the fare by route. Instead,
every pair of stations seems to have a fixed price based on the most
obvious route, but you can actually take whatever route you like. As
long as you're touching in and out correctly, you aren't fare evading.


At one point with paper tickets, there was a mention that you must
travel via a direct route. A Zone 2-1 single would be valid from
Ladbrooke Grove to Paddington, but wouldn't be valid on a journey from
Ladbrook grove - Waterloo, stay behind the barriers, then travel to
Paddington.


I would suspect that the same rules applies for Oyster PAYG too. If you
try the same with Oyster PAYG and get checked at, say a northbound
Bakerloo train somewhere between Waterloo and Paddington, you may need
very good arguments for being on that train when the last touch-in
record on your card shows "Ladbroke Grove".

But in the OP's particular case this should be no problem. There cannot
possibly be anything suspicious about being on an east-bound
Metropolitan train between Rayner's Lane and Baker Street with an Oyster
card with a last touch-in tecord from Sudbury Hill even if the card
contains a Z 1-4 Travelcard and some PAYG value.

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