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Joe Patrick writes
My son bought a Priv Day Travelcard from Baker Street Tube station this
morning and it had 4 yellow arrows at the bottom? Could someone please
tell me what this means, or are all tickets being issued like thi


Different coloured arrows for different areas of London.

Red in the north (on the northern end of the Piccadilly line at least);
yellow in the centre. I'm sure someone else will tell you the colours
used elsewhere.

Purpose? An easy way to spot people who have crossed Z1 'illegally', I
guess.

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Joe Patrick writes
My son bought a Priv Day Travelcard from Baker Street Tube station this
morning and it had 4 yellow arrows at the bottom? Could someone please
tell me what this means, or are all tickets being issued like thi


Different coloured arrows for different areas of London.

Red in the north (on the northern end of the Piccadilly line at least);
yellow in the centre. I'm sure someone else will tell you the colours
used elsewhere.

Purpose? An easy way to spot people who have crossed Z1 'illegally', I
guess.

--
Dave


There are plenty of ways to 'cross' London without going through zone 1 on
the tube: buses, N London line, S London trains.


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Different coloured arrows for different areas of London.

Red in the north (on the northern end of the Piccadilly line at least);
yellow in the centre. I'm sure someone else will tell you the colours
used elsewhere.

Purpose? An easy way to spot people who have
crossed Z1 'illegally', I guess.


Illegally indeed (no quotes needed).

There are plenty of ways to 'cross' London without going through
zone 1 on the tube: buses, N London line, S London trains.


Yes, but revenue staff can ask you how you got there, and you'd better have
your story straight. I suppose that if you do it habitually you are likely
to get followed.

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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acro...69/tpftla.html
A man's vehicle is a symbol of his manhood.
That's why my vehicle's the Piccadilly Line -
It's the size of a county and it comes every two and a half minutes


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There are plenty of ways to 'cross' London without going through zone 1
on the tube: buses, N London line, S London trains.



But if you just have a single ticket it might look a bit suspicious.
Just out of interest. If you were to buy a ticket from Zone 5 to Zone 4
not via Zone 1.
And then travel from a Zone 5 station in West London. To say a Zone 4
station in East London. But going through Zone 1. Would the automatic
gate pick up on it? Or just read you brought a ticket to Zone 4 and let
you through?

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Orienteer writes
Purpose? An easy way to spot people who have crossed Z1 'illegally', I
guess.


There are plenty of ways to 'cross' London without going through zone 1 on
the tube: buses, N London line, S London trains.


Thank you for pointing out the bleeding obvious. I though even a
slow-witted person would be able to surmise from my post that as the
coloured triangles make it easier to spot a ticket's origin, it means
they can be easily highlighted for closer examination

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CJG writes
There are plenty of ways to 'cross' London without going through zone
1 on the tube: buses, N London line, S London trains.



But if you just have a single ticket it might look a bit suspicious.
Just out of interest. If you were to buy a ticket from Zone 5 to Zone 4
not via Zone 1.
And then travel from a Zone 5 station in West London. To say a Zone 4
station in East London. But going through Zone 1. Would the automatic
gate pick up on it? Or just read you brought a ticket to Zone 4 and let
you through?


The ticket machine would know from which station the ticket was
purchased and act accordingly. For humans, different coloured triangles
help to highlight this scenario.

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