On Saturday my wife and I did the following return trip (with these specified tickets,). [we have Railcards loaded on our Oyster Cards, by the way].
1. Luton - St.Pancras (Luton - London Thameslink Stations, FCC super-off-peak day return)
2. St.Pancras - London Bridge via Northern Line (FCC ticket valid on tube because of Thameslink closure, but exit barriers at LBG did not work and we were delayed while arguing the point with the barrier assistant).
3. London Bridge - Greenwich (SE Trains) - Cutty Sark (Docklands) using our Oyster cards. This got charged as £1-30, even though we used a combination of NR and TfL services.
Returning the same way the fares were higher.
1. Cutty Sark - Greenwich - London Bridge (Oyster). My wife thinks she saw the sum of £1-30 provisionally charged on NR exit at London Bridge.
2. London Bridge - St.Pancras (Northern Line): given the hassle on the way out we decided to continue our Oyster Journey rather than invoke the special case on the FCC tickets, and fully expected this leg not to add to the Oyster charge, as LBG and King's Cross St.Pan are both in Zone 1. But the exit charge was £2-05, so we had to pay 75p for what should have been free.
I've tried the TfL single ticket fare finder but it is not obvious which route they assume you use. It does seem to charge £1-30 Cutty Sark to LBG and £2-05 to King's Cross, but I think assumes use of Docklands via Bank in some cases, but I could not work out which.
Does anyone understand why we got charged more on the return leg?
1. Luton - St.Pancras (Luton - London Thameslink Stations, FCC super-off-peak day return)
2. St.Pancras - London Bridge via Northern Line (FCC ticket valid on tube because of Thameslink closure, but exit barriers at LBG did not work and we were delayed while arguing the point with the barrier assistant).
3. London Bridge - Greenwich (SE Trains) - Cutty Sark (Docklands) using our Oyster cards. This got charged as £1-30, even though we used a combination of NR and TfL services.
Returning the same way the fares were higher.
1. Cutty Sark - Greenwich - London Bridge (Oyster). My wife thinks she saw the sum of £1-30 provisionally charged on NR exit at London Bridge.
2. London Bridge - St.Pancras (Northern Line): given the hassle on the way out we decided to continue our Oyster Journey rather than invoke the special case on the FCC tickets, and fully expected this leg not to add to the Oyster charge, as LBG and King's Cross St.Pan are both in Zone 1. But the exit charge was £2-05, so we had to pay 75p for what should have been free.
I've tried the TfL single ticket fare finder but it is not obvious which route they assume you use. It does seem to charge £1-30 Cutty Sark to LBG and £2-05 to King's Cross, but I think assumes use of Docklands via Bank in some cases, but I could not work out which.
Does anyone understand why we got charged more on the return leg?