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Non-existent Oyster single fares
A contact is going to be commuting between Walthamstow and Feltham in preparation for a new job and asked me to enquire about fares. It is a part time job and only temporary so a season ticket or annual Travelcard is not economical - the most suitable are single fares and my contact is prepared to avoid zone 1 to receive cheaper single fares.
My contact's local station is Walthamstow Queens Road, I've been searching for single fares on the Oyster system but apparently none exist for a journey between Walthamstow Queens Road and Feltham. I refuse to believe this. Screenshot: http://www.railforums.co.uk/picture....pictureid=2222 Fares do exist and are available from *Walthamstow Central (London Underground)* - Feltham, interchanging at Highbury & Islington (Victoria Line - LOROL NLL) and Richmond (LOROL NLL - SWT) for £2.30 off peak. Screenshot: http://www.railforums.co.uk/picture....pictureid=2223 Why are fares not available from Walthamstow Queens Road - Feltham via Gospel Oak (interchange LOROL GOBLIN - LOROL NLL) and Richmond (interchange LOROL NLL - SWT)? If no fares can be produced, my contact will have to walk an additional 10 mins to Walthamstow Central for a journey that should in reality be available from Walthamstow Queens Road. Absolute madness. |
Non-existent Oyster single fares
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Non-existent Oyster single fares
On Monday, 12 March 2012 22:16:26 UTC, wrote:
A contact is going to be commuting ... Are you a spy? |
Non-existent Oyster single fares
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... In article 6548854.958.1331590586661.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbhy1, () wrote: I ran into this with a Highbury & Islington-Putney journey which was discussed here. The problem was switching from TfL-scale fares to SWT- scale at Clapham Junction. There's no such thing as 'SWT scale'. All National Rail fares within the zones are the same, zone for zone, since about 2008 or 2009. They were all standardized as a prerequisite for Oyster PAYG implementation. Paul S |
Non-existent Oyster single fares
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6548854.958.1331590586661.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbhy1, writes My contact's local station is Walthamstow Queens Road, I've been searching for single fares on the Oyster system but apparently none exist for a journey between Walthamstow Queens Road and Feltham. I refuse to believe this. As both Walthamstow stations are in Zone 3, the fares from Queens Road will be the same as those from Central. As others have said, there seem to be gaps in the fare finder for some journeys of this sort. -- Paul Terry |
Non-existent Oyster single fares
In message 6548854.958.1331590586661.JavaMail.geo-discussion-
forums@vbhy1 of Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:16:26 in uk.transport.london, writes A contact is going to be commuting between Walthamstow and Feltham in preparation for a new job and asked me to enquire about fares. It is a part time job and only temporary so a season ticket or annual Travelcard is not economical - the most suitable are single fares and my contact is prepared to avoid zone 1 to receive cheaper single fares. It would be friendlier to cross post to utl and uk.railways, rather than multi-post so all message are symmetrically available. I have cross-posted but the horse has bolted. It would also be nice for your lines to wrap after some reasonable number of characters. 72 is often advised. The Oyster Customer Service Centre helpline on 0845 330 9876 with options 1 and 2 is a useful place to ask the question. They say 6.90 peak and 4.60 off-peak and that no avoiding zone 1 fares are available. About 10k station pairs on the Single Fare Finder have "No fares were found for that journey". [That is counting WMW-FEL and FEL-WMW as one journey.] I don't suppose they will be able to give a coherent answer to why. I must resist the temptation to make an FOI Act request for them to list those fares. ;) I don't currently care enough to see which of those journeys is priced on the National Rail Enquiries site. My contact's local station is Walthamstow Queens Road, I've been searching for single fares on the Oyster system but apparently none exist for a journey between Walthamstow Queens Road and Feltham. I refuse to believe this. You're right not to do so. Logically, Oyster must have a charge - even if it is the sum of a touched in and not touched out journey and a not touched in and touched out journey. Screenshot: http://www.railforums.co.uk/picture....pictureid=2222 Fares do exist and are available from *Walthamstow Central (London Underground)* - Feltham, interchanging at Highbury & Islington (Victoria Line - LOROL NLL) and Richmond (LOROL NLL - SWT) for £2.30 off peak. Screenshot: http://www.railforums.co.uk/picture....pictureid=2223 Why are fares not available from Walthamstow Queens Road - Feltham via Gospel Oak (interchange LOROL GOBLIN - LOROL NLL) and Richmond (interchange LOROL NLL - SWT)? If no fares can be produced, my contact will have to walk an additional 10 mins to Walthamstow Central for a journey that should in reality be available from Walthamstow Queens Road. Absolute madness. Just kafkaesque. Fares are available; they're not documented. Until they're documented, customers can't be charged incorrectly. ;) -- Walter Briscoe |
Non-existent Oyster single fares
On 13/03/2012 11:30, Paul Terry wrote: In message 6548854.958.1331590586661.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbhy1, writes My contact's local station is Walthamstow Queens Road, I've been searching for single fares on the Oyster system but apparently none exist for a journey between Walthamstow Queens Road and Feltham. I refuse to believe this. As both Walthamstow stations are in Zone 3, the fares from Queens Road will be the same as those from Central.[...] That's not necessarily a given. [...] As others have said, there seem to be gaps in the fare finder for some journeys of this sort. |
Non-existent Oyster single fares
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writes That's not necessarily a given. Thanks, Mizter T -- Paul Terry |
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