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That might be the official rule but you never see anyone doing that. I'm sure 90% of passengers on typical rail replacement busses have already touched out, unless the gateline is left open at the station and they are being explicitly directed by staff.

It's like a normal off-peak day return, except valid on SWT services only. You can travel on any train (subject to peak time restrictions Monday-Friday) and break of journey is allowed. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- The "Advance" refers to the rule requiring you to purchase it...

Yeah, if Victoria is the actual destination then it's much slower to take the Tram+Tube or Overground than taking the direct service on Southern. But the time difference if travelling to many other destinations in central London would be smaller. The cheapest route would be tram to Wimbledon...

1. On an off-peak ticket, it's totally fine to start your return journey at St. Pancras if you want. 2. You can't use your ticket to/from any Underground station, however. Only from a station appropriate to the route of your journey. So from Kew Bridge, Vauxhall or Waterloo would be most...

If you want to save money and don't mind taking a slower route, you can always take the Tram to Wimbledon and the Tube from there, or the Overground from West Croydon.

Kids under 11 travel free on the Tube, Overground, TfL Rail, DLR, Busses, Trams and some National Rail services ("green routes"). No ticket needed so long as they're accompanied by an Adult. Info here: https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/travel-for-under-18s There's no 3-day Travelcard...

Huh? They will know, as accurately as any other ToC, how many people are using Travelcards to travel on London Overground. Most LO stations have ticket barriers, after all. And the Class 378s can determine passenger counts pretty accurately with their loadweigh system.

You could also consider Harrow & Wealdstone or Wembley Central. Fast trains to Watford Junction without being quite so far out.

You know, someone should make a web app to calculate the cost of 1st upgrade excess fares. It sounds like it would be a good use of the brfares.com developer API!

Is this all part of a conspiracy between Scotrail and the SNP to plump up the passenger figures on the borders railway?

Good point. Another option: Cuffley to Highbury & Islington annual season, £1676. You could use Oyster PAYG from there (easy as there's an on-platform Oyster reader on the Victoria line), potentially saving money if you weren't using it every workday of the year. 200 round trips to...

Cuffley - Crews Hill Annual Season £552 Zone 1-6 Annual Travelcard £2364 Total: £2916 Saving: £4.00 In this case the Travelcard would be issued on Oyster which, IMO, has some advantages.

For Oyster, the evening peak rate doesn't affect fare capping. i.e. The off-peak fare cap applies to all journeys after 9:30AM. But this is all irrelevant now for travel within Zones 1-4, since the peak and off-peak fare caps are the same! Also, remember that your Reading-London off peak...

No, you are always required to touch in and out when using Oyster PAYG. But in this case, the Oyster readers are not working, so touching in is not possible. It would be unfair of them to require you to buy a paper ticket, which may cost you much more than the Oyster PAYG fare.

You would be charged the maximum fare upon touching out. This varies by route/station, but it's up to £8.90 at most National Rail stations, and £14.00 to/from Gatwick Airport. You could then claim back the difference by calling Oyster customer service and telling them what happened. In...