NR/Oyster Clapham Junction

[Rouge]

Hi all,

On Friday I need to do the following journey

London Victoria - Box Hill & Westhumble

Box Hill & Westhumble - Hoxton

I'm not too sure if break of journeys, I.e alight at an earlier station is allowed on an off peak return

My plan would be to buy an off-peak return from London Vic to Box, on the return route I would alight at Clapham Junction and use my contactless card on the platform Oyster readers (probably the pink ones) and continue on the Overground to Hoxton.

Is this allowed or would I have to exit the station with my paper ticket and re-enter touching in with my contactless?

 

[MikeWh]

Hi all,

On Friday I need to do the following journey

London Victoria - Box Hill & Westhumble

Box Hill & Westhumble - Hoxton

I'm not too sure if break of journeys, I.e alight at an earlier station is allowed on an off peak return

My plan would be to buy an off-peak return from London Vic to Box, on the return route I would alight at Clapham Junction and use my contactless card on the platform Oyster readers (probably the pink ones) and continue on the Overground to Hoxton.

Is this allowed or would I have to exit the station with my paper ticket and re-enter touching in with my contactless?

That is fine. Break of journey is allowed on the return portion of all off-peak returns (and on the outward portion unless the restrictions say otherwise). As you are not leaving the station it probably isn't a break of journey anyway, but that's just semantics.

The only grey area is the Oyster readers. Pink readers are designed to indicate an interchange within an Oyster journey. However, if you aren't within an Oyster journey, they will start a new one. They will not end an Oyster journey under any circumstances.

 

[embers25]

Hi all,

On Friday I need to do the following journey

London Victoria - Box Hill & Westhumble

Box Hill & Westhumble - Hoxton

I'm not too sure if break of journeys, I.e alight at an earlier station is allowed on an off peak return

My plan would be to buy an off-peak return from London Vic to Box, on the return route I would alight at Clapham Junction and use my contactless card on the platform Oyster readers (probably the pink ones) and continue on the Overground to Hoxton.

Is this allowed or would I have to exit the station with my paper ticket and re-enter touching in with my contactless?

Plat 19 17 still has a yellow reader I believe so go there if you don't want to exit fully and come back in.

 

[CatfordCat]

Plat 19 still has a yellow reader I believe so go there if you don't want to exit fully and come back in.

Assume this is a typo...

Last time I looked, there was a yellow Oyster Card reader inside the barriers in the subway at Clapham Junction, near the bottom of the stairs up to platform 17, on the left hand side if you're walking towards the exit.

Presume the intention is for people making a journey from outside London to Clapham Junction on paper ticket then starting another on PAYG.

Although it's only a few paces from there to the barriers in any case.

Can't remember seeing a similar lot at the low numbered platform end.

 

[embers25]

Assume this is a typo...

Last time I looked, there was a yellow Oyster Card reader inside the barriers in the subway at Clapham Junction, near the bottom of the stairs up to platform 17, on the left hand side if you're walking towards the exit.

Presume the intention is for people making a journey from outside London to Clapham Junction on paper ticket then starting another on PAYG.

Although it's only a few paces from there to the barriers in any case.

Can't remember seeing a similar lot at the low numbered platform end.

Yep 17 sorry and there aren't any yellow ones at the other exits or platforms that I've found.

 

[themeone]

There is also a yellow reader on the platform at Platform 17, signposted from the pedestrian bridge.

 

[swt_passenger]

There is also a yellow reader on the platform at Platform 17, signposted from the pedestrian bridge.

That's probably the same one they are referring to in post #3, there is no P19 - it was a typo.