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Old January 12th 08, 10:41 AM posted to uk.transport.london, uk.railway
Paul Oter Paul Oter is offline
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Default Oyster and National Rail season tickets

On Jan 11, 5:28 pm, JB wrote:
Can you transfer the travelcard element of an annual National Rail
season tickets that has an origin of somewhere outside London, for
example Cambridge to Zones R1256, onto an Oyster card, and if so how?


An annual (standard class) season ticket from Cambridge to London
Terminals is £3640 and to London Zones R1256 is £4600, a difference of
£960.

If you simply commute on working days only to a Zone 1 underground
station and use a pre-pay OysterCard, the annual cost of your tube
travel would be about £1.50 x 2 x 5 x 48 which is £720. So even if you
make occasional additional journeys at weekends, beyond Zone 1 or on
the bus it might be cheaper to get a London Terminals ticket and use a
pre-pay OysterCard.

Note, incidentally, that if you're commuting from Cambridge to the
City of London (and don't fancy the Liverpool Street line) then you
can use a Cambridge - London Terminals ticket on the underground
between King's Cross and Moorgate.

PaulO