But surely a break of journey is allowed at Highbury & Islington, as it is a National Rail station (albeit staffed by Underground staff), which would also be why you can leave Old Street station - that also being a National Rail station.
Because a Zone U1 ticket would be more expensive (or R1256 if it was a season). The whole point of the inter-availability is to avoid charging passengers for the Underground part of the journey to travel to National Rail destinations.
Indeed, and you'd also have the issue of relief staff, some of whom might be brought in at short notice from locations which wouldn't need any knowledge of local arrangements like this.
At the risk of drifting even more off-topic, ISTR that the Sleeper fares to Zone U1 (and possibly Zone U12) were set at the same level as those to London Terminals specifically to avoid the acceptance issue, but Serco's new range of Sleeper products has eliminated that and they're now all explicitly to/from Euston (or Kings Cross when diverted) with no through fares to zonal destinations.
Probably not trying to withdraw it - they probably don't realise it exists!
I've seen someone mention that there was some signage at King's Cross. Not sure about the details.
Seems printing posters and displaying them are a long way from a few TfL staff simply not knowing the ticketing rules.
Surely the best way of making this change would be to have the gates continue to allow entry at King's Cross (and exit at Moorgate and Old Street), but deny exit at other stationsI think I know what has happened. This is from a FOI request in the summer and is an extract of the "Ask Olly" page in the internal Ticketing and Revenue publication by TfL.
Customers /are/ already denied exit at all other stations. The issue the letter is referring to is that customers enter the system at Kings + and travel to a station where 'London Terminals' tickets are not valid. They then approach staff for assistance and a problem arises when they are told their ticket is not valid for travel.
While I have never worked for TfL I do know that in every single company that I have worked for in 45 years of paid employment that any sort of official circular is ignored by around half the staff.
The bulletin in question is supposed to be signed for by every member of staff. How well that is enforced is down to local management. For what it's worth, the bulletin is only for London Underground, not TfL staff, and station staff are employed on contracts for London Underground Ltd and not Transport for London.
The issue is now that the barriers have been reprogrammed at King's Cross, Moorgate, etc, where it should be letting folk through. The barriers at other stations rightly do not let people through.
I know that; I didn’t say anything to the contrary. My post was in direct relation to the one I quoted. The change is only at Kings + St Pancras.
Understood. No offence intended.
Yes..
Also, the staff didn't really have to know the acceptance rules before this week, as until Monday the ticket gates were accepting the tickets.
