On 14 Nov, 19:34, Terry Harper wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:12:09 -0000, "David A Stocks"

wrote:
I need to do the above trip next Sunday, arriving around lunchtime and
returning a few hours later. I have an Annual Gold Card valid Brighton -
London Terminals, and an oyster card with a PAYG balance on it.

I feel that the ideal route would be FCC to Kings Cross then Northern line
to Angel, but the Gold Card isn't valid north of Blackfriars, and there
isn't a sensible way of validating the Oyster card for travel between there
and Angel. The option of picking up the Northern Line at London Bridge
doesn't work because engineering works mean FCC aren't going that way. Is
there a paper ticket (effectively a zone 1 return) I can buy before getting
on the train at Brighton to cover the Blackfriars-Angel bit, or would I be
better off doing something else like travelling via Victoria, or taking a
bus from Blackfriars?

Is there a problem with District Line from Blackfriars to Mansion
House, then Northern Line, Bank to Angel?


No, not this weekend at least (i.e. no engineering works on either
line).

And yes, I see what you've done there - suggesting walking at street
level between Mansion House and Bank stations, rather than the long
subterranean walk between Monument and Bank stations.

A couple of principle issues with that:

(1) It's just one stopI The whole idea of a one stop Underground
journey, especially when the two stations are pretty close, just
grates with me - I inevitably think, why not just walk instead?! An
amendment would be to go two stops to Cannon Street and then walk up
Walbrook or St Swithin's Lane to Bank.

(2) There is not AFAIAA any out-of-station interchange between any of
these stations (Mansion House, Cannon Street or Bank/Monument) so you
would be charged for two separate journeys. Changing at Bank/Monument
is an 'in-station' interchange (as it's just one big station complex)
and hence you'd only be charged once for the whole journey (an Oyster
PAYG fare of £1.50).

Of course if a passenger was making several other journeys that day
things would be different, as they'd be likely to reach a daily price
cap and hence the cost of 'extra' journeys would be irrelevant.