On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:32 +0000 (GMT Standard Time), Colin Rosenstiel
wrote:

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

It's because there's a change of modes involved. Fares for through
LU-NR (or vice versa) journeys have for a long time been more
expensive than similar journeys that just use LU or NR - it used to be
simply the price of the two separate journey legs added together. The
new zonal Train Tube Fares were introduced a couple of years back, but
these merely continued the trend (they are more expensive than straight
Tube paper tickets, which are themselves priced at 'punitive' levels).

Ouch! I thought they were supposed to have moved towards zonal fares on
NR last January?

They did, but that doesn't seem to have affected the price of Train
Tube Fares yet.

Was there an answer to the other question, BTW? Anyone know?

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?

Correct. NR singles and returns within the zones are priced zonally,
but still issued as point-to-point tickets, with the same validity as
before.