Recent content by redstar

I tried it this morning from St. Albans City to St. John's Wood (Jubilee line, zone 2) and TfL shows a charge of £11.70 for the journey under 'today's travel'. By comparison the single rail fare for SAC to WHP would have been £11.90 with £1.70 extra for the tube (total £13.60 giving a saving of...

Posters, and the Thameslink web site, now say contactless is available at St. Albans City. But what are the fares? The TfL single fare finder doesn’t seem to have been updated. Anyone know?

KeyGo would be very useful to me at the moment as I'm making lots of journeys that go beyond my season ticket validity. But only if it knew I had a Gold Card discount. Until then, I can't use it. Surely it isn't hard for the system to know about railcards and to calculate the correct fare...

Can I travel via Warrington Bank Quay with a ticket from Euston to Manchester? I need to make a journey to Warrington but back from Manchester and want to do so as cheaply as possible. Getting singles seems to work out much more expensive so I was hoping to be able to make it a return some...

Related to this, does anyone actually know whether any services ran without an OBS during the most recent RMT strike specifically due to the OBS being on strike? Or have Southern been able to run almost a full timetable because enough OBSs reported for work and they have enough managers and...

Hardly any Southern services to London were running through Redhill in the peak this morning, reportedly due to the drivers' work to rule. GTR seem to have diverted a few Thameslinks to provide some sort of a service to the poor Redhill commuters.

My experience (with a travelcard season on the key) is that it just works, despite the odd mistake. It could be different for a point to point season but here are some answers based on my experience: 1. No. I've failed to touch in or out on various occasions since I got the card for various...

I don't think they did give assurances about those things: they made an offer to the RMT to address those points in the hope of getting an agreement. But there was no agreement. All that the company has promised in the absence of an agreement is to maintain jobs and salaries until the end of...

My guess is they don't want thousands of commuters using morning services to get to work and then getting stranded with no way of getting home. Imagine if they ran a normal morning peak service and most people went to work as on a normal weekday. The chaos this evening would be quite something!

What about getting off at a zone 1 tube station that isn't a national rail station? Can you still get out on a cross London transfer ticket?

I had an opportunity to try this recently. The answer to (a) is yes: I was able to buy a Redhill-Gatwick ticket for The Key and request it be available for pick up at Reigate. The system added it to my card as I passed through the barriers at Reigate some time before the day I was going to...

The first three of those reasons might still apply but I'm sure the last two must just have been teething problems. I've been using a travelcard season on The Key for nearly a year now and have never had it fail to open a ticket gate on LU or national rail, nor had a failure on a bus. I must...

Thanks for the reply. My reading of the NRCoC and the Key terms and conditions were that you had to touch in and out at the start and end of the journey ("Key" requirement), and that you had to have one or more tickets covering the journey (NRCoC requirement). I think it would be unreasonable...

I have an annual season ticket on "The Key" (Southern's ITSO smartcard), Reigate - London zones 1-6. Say I want to travel to Gatwick Airport. Let's say it's off peak. My season ticket will get me as far as Redhill so I should just need an off peak gold card single from Redhill to Gatwick...