On Apr 12, 12:37*pm, wrote:

On 12 Apr, 11:42, wrote:

Hi there,
Done some travelling on an old familiar route ( Central Station to NLL
station) and noticed some fare changes. Apologies in advance if this
is old news.

South Ruislip / Greenford ( Central Line) to Camden Road ( NLL / LO)
is now a £2.20 fare and is classified as a via Z1 journey irrespective
of which route you take. When did this increase take place ? I know
that Greenford - Camden Road ( via NLL/LO) used to be £1.10 back in
February.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what would be the way to use the
S. Ruislip - Camden Rd via Shepherds Bush (LO) route and get the
system to recognise that you have not transgressed into Z1 hence
allowing one to benefit from a *zone 2-6 (£3.00) cap. Some months back
it was suggested to me to alight at White City and then walk through
Westfield Shopping Centre to Shepherd's Bush London Overground and
resume my journey from there. The alternative was to touch in at a pad
at Willesden Junction to tray to convince the system that I am not
going through Z1. However, *I have noticed today that South Ruislip /
Greenford to Willesden Junction is also a £2.20 fare ( via Z1) so this
method will not apply. My only option seems to be to stagger the main
journey into several sub-journeys as previously advised.


I should think it is due to the fact that Greenford to Paddington is
now on PAYG so you could take a route via paddington bakerloo line to
willesden junction. *Previously this route would not have been
possible with PAYG.


The timescale doesn't make sense for that though - the OP says it was
"£1.10 back in February", but FGW started accepting Oyster PAYG
between all stations including Paddington back in September '08 - see
this utl thread from back then:
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.tr...c5bc03d07ea75/

Anyway I'm afraid that I think the OP is mistaken that such a journey
would have been charged at £1.10 (i.e. non-z1) back in February - we
had some lengthy discussions on this issue back in February which were
prompted by another poster, and the issue of being charged via-z1
fares for I think this very same journey was the same, i.e. they
weren't being charged £1.10 as expected and they wanted to know why.