Out of station NR interchanges: to touch out or not?
My wife commutes from Bromley South to Sutton, sometimes via Herne Hill
but also by walking between the two Penges. Prepay will suit her very well, and the fare calculator assumes the route via Herne Hill (ie Z3-5), which is fine. But I wonder if anyone here can predict what would happen if she touched out at Penge East and in at West? Will the fare be more/less/the same? Presumably 'ordinary' yellow Oyster readers will just end her journey and begin a new one, and there's certainly no sign of any pink validators around here. I'll get her to try it for real next week, but I'm sure the combined expertise of this group can work out the likely answer... -- Current nearest station: Tooting Broadway |
Out of station NR interchanges: to touch out or not?
On 1 Jan, 02:43, Rupert Candy wrote:
My wife commutes from Bromley South to Sutton, sometimes via Herne Hill but also by walking between the two Penges. Prepay will suit her very well, and the fare calculator assumes the route via Herne Hill (ie Z3-5), which is fine. But I wonder if anyone here can predict what would happen if she touched out at Penge East and in at West? Will the fare be more/less/the same? Presumably 'ordinary' yellow Oyster readers will just end her journey and begin a new one, and there's certainly no sign of any pink validators around here. I'll get her to try it for real next week, but I'm sure the combined expertise of this group can work out the likely answer... -- Current nearest station: Tooting Broadway Penge East / West will be an Out of Station Interchange (OSI). Time limit in either direction will be 25 minutes (I am told). So, if your wife touches out at Penge East and then in again at Penge West within 25 minutes, assuming she touches in at Bromley South and out at Sutton, she will pay for one journey rather than two |
Out of station NR interchanges: to touch out or not?
"Rupert Candy" wrote in message ... ....Presumably 'ordinary' yellow Oyster readers will just end her journey and begin a new one, and there's certainly no sign of any pink validators around here. No, it doesn't work like that - Out of Station Interchange is dealt with by normal Yellow validators, subject to a time limit for getting between the two gatelines. Pink validators are for for route validation, which is a different, and relatively new feature. Paul S |
Out of station NR interchanges: to touch out or not?
On Jan 1, 11:58*am, "Paul Scott"
wrote: "Rupert Candy" wrote in message ... ....Presumably 'ordinary' yellow Oyster readers will just end her journey and begin a new one, and there's certainly no sign of any pink validators around here. No, it doesn't work like that - Out of Station Interchange is dealt with by normal Yellow validators, subject to a time limit for getting between the two gatelines. Pink validators are for for route validation, which is a different, and relatively new feature. Thanks to both - that's exactly what I wanted to know. (I wasn't sure whether they'd bother setting up the Penges to be an OOSI - it's surprisingly hard to get the various Journey Planners to treat them as an interchange at all!) |
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