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Neither do, just the usual LUL ticket machines.

Your 2-4 daily cap is charged to include zone 1, i.e. even if you travel entirely within 2-4 you won't cap out until you hit the equivalent 1-4 daily cap, which is £9.30. If it looks unfair that's because it is. TfL did a lot of shifting around with capping at the beginning of 2015, including...

I'd expect they will have problems - as well as being distinct stations (there is no 'Bromley group') the stations are in different travelcard zones - South is in z5 and would attract a higher fare from Central London than B North which is in 4. More knowledgable members will be able to advise...

I saw Tom Watson late one Saturday evening late last year, alone, staring grimly at a cancellation-splattered departures board at New Street. I was once almost run down in 1997 by Jimmy Savile and a member of Railtrack staff who were at the wheel of a mobility buggy at Glasgow Central. I can't...

Voyagers, though I put the refurbished SWT/Southern 455s not too far behind.. there's just nothing to excite about them. I do have a fondness for Pacers in a weird way

I'm local to Finsbury Park and when I needed to get to Slough cheaply I would get the Piccadilly Line to Hounslow West then the 81. If you value your sanity I can't recommend it on a daily basis - it is about two hours each way vs about 70-90 minutes via Paddington and a fast train. It is the...

I had a similar situation at Highgate a few months ago - the ticket got jammed in the mechanism on the gateline as I was exiting the station late one evening. Nobody responded to my attempts to get attention for three or four minutes so I hit the emergency plunger (which did work) and went on my...

Unless it is crucially important to you to be within a cab ride or short night bus of what London has to offer then I'd suggest moving to Watford and being done with it - cheaper rent, more space and a shorter commute. And you can spend the money you save enjoying the cultural and leisure...

Swale has a PERTIS machine and was functioning when I visited back in August. I believe West Drayton's is still there and activated when the ticket office is closed.. a few others on the lines out of Paddington too, unless they have been removed very recently indeed. There are still a few...

What happens at the moment at Carpenders Park when the Overground to Watford Junction conks out? The nearest TfL bus services from there are over a mile away by foot.

Nice way to start my ALR week.. not. Currently on the vestibule floor of the 1103 KGX-LDS, which is full and standing if at least on time. Expecting to be swamped at Hungtingdon!

Hello and welcome to the forum. In respect to question three, yes, you load money onto a Zip card in the same way you would on an adult Oyster, at a station or Oyster-equipped newsagent. If they travel from Forest Hill to East Croydon then a child single will be deducted for that leg of the...

IMO you should be ok, but be prepared for crowd control scenes at Paddington for buses and expect that to eat up some time. If you're getting into Paddington at around 11am you should be ok with the worst of the morning rush having subsided. Buses will be busy but not unboardable, roads will be...

The 205 is one of those routes that typically sees extra buses on strike days, primarily because it shadows a large section of the Circle/H&C Line. The majority of these extras are scraped together from any firms able to supply buses and drivers, i.e. often well out of town, and their drivers...

Can comment as a regular on the Overground that this is indeed the case. Far less bunched than it ever was in the days of A-stock/313s/508s (though the 313s were invariably rammed to the max in any case so perhaps harder to tell there)

8 cars of spotless 317/7 on the 1900 to Enfield Town this evening. Genuinely impressed by how well the interior has scrubbed up with a bit of TLC and a damn good clean, it felt as though a full refurbishment had been recently executed. Struggled a bit to keep to time but the 317s always have...

Hmm, does pose a more interesting question then. Plenty of employment in Stratford but much of it oriented towards retail and away from the traditional 9-6.. some offices too. Besides light industrial stuff around Three Mills/Manor Road/West Ham (admittedly quite substantial in its own right)...

Shoreditch High Street is less than a 10 minute walk to many of the office complexes around Bishopsgate/Liverpool Street, as well as the various offices around Old Street (though I suppose most of these would just stay on a GN train from north London). There is also Canary Wharf and surrounds...

With a 45 minute connection time I'd forget the 205 option. With clear roads (pot luck in itself) it is about 25 minutes once you're on a bus but the route is prone to running with 20+ minute gaps because of major long term roadworks elsewhere on the route. A good cabbie will know how to dodge...

You should be able to buy a straight 'combined' Maidenhead to London Zones 1-6 travelcard season ticket and commute on it from Forest Gate to Maidenhead and back each day - I don't think there is a stipulation that means you can't use it in the opposite direction to that primarily intended...