In message
of
Sun, 4 Jan 2009 07:19:37 in uk.transport.london, Mizter T
writes

[snip]

because it will be more expensive for them.


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[1] Off-Peak Day Travelcards actually have a potential validity period
of 28 1/2hrs (from midnight until 0430 the following morning), but one
can only take advantage of this on Saturdays, Sunday and public
holidays (i.e. the only days when Off-Peak Travelcards are valid all
day inc. before 0930).

I would appreciate a quote from
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloa...-and-tickets-Z
-1-6-02-01-09.pdf to support this intriguing suggestion. I think
validity starts at 04.30 and runs up to but not including 04.30. Fun
would start on services - bus or national rail service - where a journey
starts before 04.30, but ends after.

Does anybody know a station which has operational gate lines about 05.00
and train services starting before 04.30? The 03.50 weekday service from
East Croydon which takes 3 changes (at Wimbledon, Waterloo and Waterloo
East) before arriving at London Bridge at 05.25 fits the time criterion.
Sadly, I have never seen operational gates at London Bridge after 22.00
and I don't suppose they are used before 06.00.
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Walter Briscoe