London Banter - View Single Post - Best tickets for Cambridge-Tolworth via Putney?

Colin Rosenstiel · November 14th 07, 12:31 PM posted to uk.transport.london

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(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

I have a 9 am start in Tolworth on Friday. Given the price of a Peak
Travelcard from Cambridge and so I don't have to get up so early,
staying in Putney at my mother's seems the best. But ticketing seems
confused.

I have a choice of a Saver Return to King's Cross at £16.50 (with
Network Card discount) plus £1.50 Oyster (after 19:00) or £19.15 for a
Saver to Zones 1 & 2 which would get me to East Putney on Thursday
night. I can't use either of these on Friday morning to get to
Tolworth because (a) it will be the next day and (b) it will be
before 10am so the Network Card won't be valid.

So I can get a single from East Putney to Tolworth for £3.80 or from
Putney to Tolworth (via Clapham Junction) for £2.90. Why such an
enormous (in percentage terms) premium for the shorter route via LU?

For the return I seem to have a choice of Tolworth to Clapham Junction
at £2.70 with the Zones 1 & 2 Saver or Tolworth to Vauxhall at £3.80,
followed by Zone 1 Oyster at £1.50, with the King's Cross Saver.

So the alternative totals for King's Cross and Zones 1 & 2 savers seem
to be £16.50+£1.50+£2.70+£3.60+£1.50=£25.80 and
£19.15+£2.70+£2.70=£24.55, assuming I go from Putney to Tolworth via
Clapham Jcn. Perhaps the Putney-Tolworth and Tolworth-Clapham Jcn
singles could be a Putney-Tolworth return at £4.70, saving 70p and
reducing the Zones 1 & 2 saver total to £23.85. I assume a
Putney-Tolworth return wouldn't be valid to Vauxhall on the return
leg, despite it also being in Zone 2?

Or have I got this all wrong?

No-one? I'm most surprised the fare from East Putney is so high.

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Colin Rosenstiel