Paul Kelly
Verified Rep - BR Fares
Oh yes it is actually - and quite a bit cheaper too (£25.30 for a SVR rather than £28.50). There are also fares from Reading to Zone U3 routed Ealing Common/West Acton but they are the same price as the Zone U23 fares.
However the fares database shows Notting Hill Gate as being in Zone 1, and it doesn't have the facility for a station to be in two zones. So you would definitely need an external source of data to be able to work out properly which was the best ticket.
Are dual-zoned stations a later add-on to the original concept of London zones? It would seem strange that the fares database can't cope with them, unless the system wasn't like that originally and the schema simply wasn't updated later when dual-zoned stations were introduced.
However the fares database shows Notting Hill Gate as being in Zone 1, and it doesn't have the facility for a station to be in two zones. So you would definitely need an external source of data to be able to work out properly which was the best ticket.
Are dual-zoned stations a later add-on to the original concept of London zones? It would seem strange that the fares database can't cope with them, unless the system wasn't like that originally and the schema simply wasn't updated later when dual-zoned stations were introduced.