On 21 Sep, 15:30, "Recliner" wrote:

"Matthew Dickinson" wrote:

First Great Western will accept Oyster Pay As You Go at all stations
between Paddington and *West Drayton or Greenford from the 21st
September, according to a leaflet I picked up at Ealing Broadway
yesterday. The fares and peak periods will be the same as for the
tube.

As a matter of interest, how do you get charged on a pre-pay Oyster card
if the journey involves both NR and LE, with an out of barrier change -- *
eg, if you take FGW from, say, Ealing Broadway to Paddington, then
change to the Circle from Paddington to, say, Baker Street? *Is it
treated as a single zone 1-3 journey, or a zone 1-3 plus a zone 1
journey? *And, presumably, the same rule applies with other operators,
such as Chiltern or even London Overground?


I presume that "LE" is a typo for LU.

In scenarios such as that which you describe, you are only charged
once for the whole journey - the segment from Paddington to Baker
Street is merely counted as a continuation of your journey. This
applies at locations where there are out-of-station interchanges (OOSI
- we have sometimes referred to them here as 'outerchanges'!), though
that term is potentially confusing when one doesn't actually leave the
station, one just exits through an automatic gate, crosses a
concourse, drops down some stairs and then enters another gate.

It does remain possible that journeys on NR routes might be charged at
different different rates to the LU fare scale - in such a
hypothetical scenario what one pays for a combined NR and LU journey
would be open to question - however, thankfully, thus far all the TOCs
who have adopted Oyster PAYG have also adopted the LU fare scale as
well.