On 21 Sep, 23:19, Colin McKenzie wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

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.

They accepted mine from Ealing Broadway on Heathrow Connect on Thursday.
The guard had a reader to confirm I had some credit on the card.

FGW (and Heathrow Connect) have accepted Oyster PAYG for journeys
between Greenford, Ealing Broadway and Paddington since May - but
*not* at intermediate stations on the Greenford line, nor at stations
any further west than Ealing Broadway. See Mr Dickinson's post here
from the time:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....60143b1829fb83

(Incidentally, before FGW started accepted Oyster PAYG for journeys to/
from Paddington, they were accepting it for journeys between Greenford
and Ealing Broadway but not at intermediate stations).

So with regards to your journey from Ealing B'way to Paddington,
Oyster PAYG acceptance is nothing brand new (though it is relatively
new).



As a matter of interest, how do you get charged on a pre-pay Oyster card
if the journey involves both NR and LU, 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? ....

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.

And it works. £2.50 charge shown on exit at Paddington; no extra charge
for continuation to Westminster.


Just as it should. This is no different from the situation if one
arrives by NR train at Euston from (say) Harrow & Wealdstone, or at
Marylebone from (say) Amersham, or Liverpool Street from Stratford, or
Kings Cross from Finsbury Park etc etc - in all of these cases (and
many others) where one must exit and re-enter through gates the Oyster
system merely counts it as a continuation of the original journey.

(And I'm pretty sure that Marylebone NR and Baker Street LU are tied
together as being a valid OOSI, and I think this is also the case with
regards to Fenchurch Street NR and Tower Hill LU - though annoyingly
Paddington NR and Lancaster Gate LU is not an OOSI.)