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LHR to Tilbury Pier
On Jun 30, 10:13*pm, MIG wrote: On 30 June, 22:00, Mizter T wrote: On Jun 30, 9:35*pm, " wrote: *i priced it at 2.40 for the tube 3.00 for the train well under the 10 usd i budgeted Now I understand what you're planning on doing - i.e. heading to Tilbury for a boat, rather than staying there - I can see where you're coming from here (metaphorically speaking, of course - I know you're actually coming from NYC!). Yes, an off-peak Tube journey (that's after 09:30 but before 16:00 weekdays) from Heathrow to either Tower Hill (for Fenchurch St) or Upminster would indeed currently cost GBP2.40 (that's a zones 1-6 journey). As you say, a single from Upminster to Tilbury is GBP3.00 - from Fenchurch Street it would cost more than double, at GBP6.20. So by staying on the Underground all the way to Upminster, you would indeed save money (you'd pay for zones 6 to 1 regardless, so going out the other side of z1 back to z6 - i.e. Upminster - is already paid for, as it were). The quid-pro-quo is that the journey on the District line takes a bit longer. But you also get a bit of local east London flavour this way! Must admit I simply hadn't considered staying on the District out to Upminster - but actually it works out quite well. Has the interavailability been done away with on this route? No - the c2c lines within the zones are all on the TfL PAYG fare scale (as opposed to the NR PAYG fare scale). If it wasn't for the touching out problem when passing through Upminster, I thought it used to be OK to get on the Tilbury train before Upminster. Yes, if David wanted to he could switch from the District at Tower Hill to Fenchurch Street for the c2c line out to Upminster, but there he would have to alight and touch-out to avoid an unresolved journey, then wait there for half an hour (buying his onward ticket to Tilbury if required) for the next c2c train. (Note of explanation - Tower Hill to Fenchurch Street is defined as being an 'out-of-station interchange', so when using Oyster PAYG if a passenger exits one station and re-enters the other within a certain time limit, the journey will be regarded and charged as one continuous journey, rather than two separate journeys. The same should also apply, I think, for passengers using paper tickets.) |
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