DLR only tickets?

[telstarbox]

Yesterday at Lewisham station my friend bought a paper single to Blackfriars on the DLR machine. This produced a Zone 2 to Zone 1 single (£4.80) on DLR stock.

The Southeastern barrier staff said that the ticket was only valid on the DLR but they would allow him through to the National Rail platforms and to explain at the destination that he had bought the 'wrong ticket' by mistake.

I thought that all TfL zonal tickets were multi-modal? If this is not the case, why does the DLR machine allow the user to select a non-DLR destination station?

The TfL site states:

Single and return tickets
You can buy single and return tickets for use on Tube, tram, DLR, London Overground, TfL Rail and most National Rail services from ticket machines.

You can't use cash to pay for your fare when you board a bus, or from a roadside ticket machine. Instead of cash you can use an Oyster or contactless payment card to pay as you go. Find out about cash free buses.

Most of the time, single and return tickets are more expensive than pay as you go fares.

 

[Mojo]

I thought that all TfL zonal tickets were multi-modal? If this is not the case, why does the DLR machine allow the user to select a non-DLR destination station?

Because Blackfriars is served by the Underground. They bought a TfL ticket, rather than a National Rail ticket (the NR ticket from Lewisham to London Terminals is only £3.20).

 

[telstarbox]

Thanks, that makes sense - but why are there separate TfL and National Rail cash fares rather than a single harmonised fare between two stations? Presumably this isn't the case where TfL have taken over NR routes on the Overground and Shenfield Metro?

 

[Bletchleyite]

To avoid whacking fare increases, I think.

 

[matt_world2004]

Did the. Ticket specify only for use on Tfl services?

 

[CyrusWuff]

If memory serves, DLR paper tickets are broadly the same as LU ones and only print the station of issue and single fare on them (Returns are one part and have the total fare printed at the bottom).

Point to point tickets that include validity on National Rail services will generally have something like "via London Bridge NR" printed on them.

Having said that, there are rumours that there's a "gentlemen's agreement" at pseudo-joint stations (such as Lewisham, Marylebone, King's Cross St. Pancras and the like, where the LU and NR sides are separate) that LU won't sell NR tickets for destinations from that station, so you couldn't buy a ticket to Cambridge at KXStP, for example.

 

[trivran]

That sounds like a load of nonsense and also something that could be easily dispelled by a trip to, for example, the KXSP ticket machines.

Any takers? No? Quel surprise :P

 

[Mojo]

That sounds like a load of nonsense and also something that could be easily dispelled by a trip to, for example, the KXSP ticket machines.

Any takers? No? Quel surprise :P

They don't sell tickets to places like Bedford, that's for sure.

 

[Starmill]

I've bought a ticket to Baldock from the Underground machine at KGX before.