Golly, it's exciting, but my Oystercard worked on PrePay today.

It even now tells me what journeys I've taken.

Clever thing.

Good, aren't they?

james007 wrote:
Golly, it's exciting, but my Oystercard worked on PrePay today.

It even now tells me what journeys I've taken.

Where? I couldn't seem to find such things on their web site.

Good, aren't they?

Except it seems that it didn't charge me the correct fare in the 2004
fare guide for a DLR journey I made yesterday (charged £2.00 instead of
£1.80). I only glanced at the reader, so I'd be interested to see a
journey and charged fare list to confirm this.

Cheers,

Luke

Last night, there was a report that a PW crane had overturned at West
London Junction, blocking several of the Waterloo lines in the vicinity
of Clapham Junction. Similarly, this morning's traffic reports say
continued blockage at Clapham due to overrunning PW works. Now, as far
as I know, West London Junction is actually at Willisden, and therefore
any incident there shouldn't affect traffic to/from Waterloo at Clapham.
Can only presume wrong junction listed. Anyone know the true location?

In message , Derek Robinson
writes

Last night, there was a report that a PW crane had overturned at West
London Junction, blocking several of the Waterloo lines in the vicinity
of Clapham Junction. Similarly, this morning's traffic reports say
continued blockage at Clapham due to overrunning PW works. Now, as far
as I know, West London Junction is actually at Willisden, and therefore
any incident there shouldn't affect traffic to/from Waterloo at
Clapham. Can only presume wrong junction listed. Anyone know the
true location?

West London Junction is also the name given to the junction where the
spur to the West London line branches off the main line from Waterloo
just before Clapham Junction - IIRC, it is the spur used by Eurostar
trains going to and from the North Pole depot.

--
Paul Terry

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:11:00 +0000, Paul Terry
wrote:

In message , Derek Robinson
writes

Last night, there was a report that a PW crane had overturned at West
London Junction, blocking several of the Waterloo lines in the vicinity
of Clapham Junction. Similarly, this morning's traffic reports say
continued blockage at Clapham due to overrunning PW works. Now, as far
as I know, West London Junction is actually at Willisden, and therefore
any incident there shouldn't affect traffic to/from Waterloo at
Clapham. Can only presume wrong junction listed. Anyone know the
true location?

West London Junction is also the name given to the junction where the
spur to the West London line branches off the main line from Waterloo
just before Clapham Junction - IIRC, it is the spur used by Eurostar
trains going to and from the North Pole depot.

I saw this crane on its side at about 6pm. My journey from Waterloo
to Guildford was lengthened from 40 minutes to 2 and a half hours by
this incident.

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Bit of an odd one, but this morning I got on the Jubilee line at Swiss
Cottage, got off at Baker Street, and it only charged me £1.60 for the
journey. Baker St to Stockwell and Gloucester Road to Belsize Park both
went in as £2.

Any ideas?!

JP


"james007" wrote in message
...
Golly, it's exciting, but my Oystercard worked on PrePay today.

It even now tells me what journeys I've taken.

Clever thing.

Good, aren't they?

J. Public wrote:
Bit of an odd one, but this morning I got on the Jubilee line at Swiss
Cottage, got off at Baker Street, and it only charged me £1.60 for the
journey. Baker St to Stockwell and Gloucester Road to Belsize Park both
went in as £2.

Any ideas?!


I would guess that Swiss Cottage to Baker Street is a special short-hop
fare. Some journeys which only just go into Zone 1 are charged at a
lower price (the Z1 single fare). For example, Gloucester Road or High
Street Kensington to Fulham Broadway or West Brompton are short hop
£1.60 fares.


--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 12:17:27 +0000, Dave Arquati
wrote:

I would guess that Swiss Cottage to Baker Street is a special short-hop
fare. Some journeys which only just go into Zone 1 are charged at a
lower price (the Z1 single fare). For example, Gloucester Road or High
Street Kensington to Fulham Broadway or West Brompton are short hop
£1.60 fares.

Are these special short hop fare rules published anywhere?


Cheers,

Jason.

"Jason" wrote in message
...

Are these special short hop fare rules published anywhere?

Only on the fare charts for the stations concerned.

Luke Ross wrote:
james007 wrote:
Golly, it's exciting, but my Oystercard worked on PrePay today.
It even now tells me what journeys I've taken.

Where? I couldn't seem to find such things on their web site.

Not yet found it on the website.

But, find a ticket machine with a screen attached. Wave your Oystercard
at it, and follow the simple instructions to see the usage of your card.
It's up-to-date to the second, so if you walk through the exit gates
(while swiping) and then use it, you'll see that the journey you've just
finished is also included.

This works even for travelcard journeys, which it marks down as costing
£0.00; this might be because my card has prepay on it too.

j