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"Andy" wrote in message ... I touched in at Gispy Hill just before 11am. An RPI did an on-train ticket inspection on the NLL, and he didn't find anything odd with my Oyster then. I touched out at Hackney Central at 12:33 and was charged £3.10 for the journey from Gipsy Hill to Hackney Central. (Which is odd, because I thought a two-zones rail journey should only be £1.50) Gipsy Hill - Hackney Central looks like it is calculated as a via zone 1 fare and this price you paid is the same as that given on the TfL fare finder. Did you touch in the pink interchange validator at Willesden Junction, when you changed trains, to show that you had travelled that way? I walked to Hackney Downs, and touched in about 12:40. I touched out at Bruce Grove at 13:03 and was charged an extra £1.50 for the journey from Hackney Downs to Bruce Grove. So start to end journey time was over two hours, which is over the maximum time allowed for the overall trip from Gipsy Hill - Bruce Grove (this counts as a journey crossing five zones and has a maximum time of 110 mins). The National Rail journey planner shows this journey as taking 76-78 mins. See http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/oyster..._journey_times What I think happened is when the OP touched in at Hackney Downs, the system checked the maximum journey time for Gipsy Hill - Hackney Downs. This is 4 zones/100 minutes. It looks like he had taken just over 100 minutes so the system treated it as a new journey, rather than extending the old one. Peter Smyth |
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On Jan 26, 9:31*pm, "Peter Smyth" wrote:
"Andy" wrote in message ... I touched in at Gispy Hill just before 11am. *An RPI did an on-train ticket inspection on the NLL, and he didn't find anything odd with my Oyster then. *I touched out at Hackney Central at 12:33 and was charged £3.10 for the journey from Gipsy Hill to Hackney Central. (Which is odd, because I thought a two-zones rail journey should only be £1.50) Gipsy Hill - Hackney Central looks like it is calculated as a via zone 1 fare and this price you paid is the same as that given on the TfL fare finder. Did you touch in the pink interchange validator at Willesden Junction, when you changed trains, to show that you had travelled that way? I walked to Hackney Downs, and touched in about 12:40. *I touched out at Bruce Grove at 13:03 and was charged an extra £1.50 for the journey from Hackney Downs to Bruce Grove. So start to end journey time was over two hours, which is over the maximum time allowed for the overall trip from Gipsy Hill - Bruce Grove (this counts as a journey crossing five zones and has a maximum time of 110 mins). The National Rail journey planner shows this journey as taking 76-78 mins. See http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/oyster...aximum_journey... What I think happened is when the OP touched in at Hackney Downs, the system checked the maximum journey time for Gipsy Hill - Hackney Downs. This is 4 zones/100 minutes. It looks like he had taken just over 100 minutes so the system treated it as a new journey, rather than extending the old one. I was trying to work out the times but you beat me to it. It would be interesting to see what would have happened if going to Stamford Hill took 108 mins, having taken 101 mins to the touch in at Hackney Downs. (Journey time being six minutes between the stations). |
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