MIG wrote:
On Mar 8, 3:43 pm, ®i©ardo wrote:
Arthur Figgis wrote:
MIG wrote:
On Mar 7, 10:02 pm, "Tim Roll-Pickering" T.C.Roll-
wrote:
MIG wrote:
Having to queue for extensions has been a pain for years, but the
assumption is probably that with Oyster PAYG the problem will go away.
Yes I find it very frustrating because I usually make such journeys
off peak
and find the desks fill up with people asking for awkward stuff and the
queue takes an age. The fact that London Underground machines used to do
paper extension tickets (do they still? I've not used one of the
machines in
yonks) just makes it more annoying that the TOCs don't.
That is, the extension to your season is some PAYG credit on the same
card, as it would be on a purely LU journey now.
That assumes Oyster will be rolled out into the commuter belt beyond
Zone 6
though (although for my particular journey there's talk of moving
Epsom into
the zone - the other stations in the borough were not too long ago) and
no-one seems to be talking about this for all the networks at the
moment.
Ah. Last time I faced the extension frustration it was to go to Epsom
Downs, which is in the zones. I didn't notice Epsom isn't.
Epsom Downs and Banstead were annexed by the zones within the past 2-3
years or so - the zones used to stop at Belmont.
Epsom itself (and Dartford) might make sense for future zonal imperialism.
Isn't Dartford already "zoned"?

No, although I don't quite understand the system for extending zones
beyond Greater London. Maybe it depends on when it happened, whether
PAYG existed at the time, whether PAYG is accepted etc; it seems to be
a bit of a mess.

For Watford and the Metropolitan (PAYG accepted) they created zones 7
to 9.

For the Central Line (PAYG accepted) they extended zone 6.

For various bits of NR, eg Hampton Court, Epsom Downs (PAYG not
accepted) they've extended zone 6.

Thanks. I only raised the question because Dartford (and Swanley) seem
to indicate the furthest limit of the Oystercard scheme in that
particular part of Kent, so I just assumed that they would be part of a
zone.

Having just been issued with a card under the Veterans' Concessionary
Travel Scheme, although I live in Somerset, I've been poring over
transport maps of London/Greater London to see just how far I can get
for free, once I get off the train at Paddington. My intention is to
visit the Royal Engineers Museum which is close to Gillingham station,
hence my interest in the extent of the Kentish connection.

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