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The Elizabeth Line is Coming

02/05/2022

So, the official line from TfL is still that the Elizabeth Line will open in the first half of 2022. We’re 4 months in already, so that just leaves May…

PAYG in the Thames Valley

26/03/202226/03/2022

Contactless Pay-As-You-Go is being extended to the branchlines off the Great Western mainline between Reading and Paddington. Starting on Monday 28th March you can use PAYG from Windsor and Eton…

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New Auto Topup Option

24/03/2022

TfL have announced that from Wednesday March 30th there will be a new option of a £10 auto topup. The threshold for updating remains £20, but you will have the…

New Fares from Tuesday – Full Details

27/02/2022

It’s a little later than I’d hoped, but I now have full details of the new fares available on this site. To check single fares and caps between any two…

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- Canary Wharf DLR – Upper Holloway fare
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  Mike
- Two days in London
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- Grays to St. James’s Park
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  Mike
- Metropolitan Line Special timetable
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- Under charged / random anomaly – Watf Jct – Z1
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- Travelling from Euston to Watford Junction for Harry Potter Studios
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- Best deal for visitor to London
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- Weekly Oyster Cap – when does it cap?
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- Odd cap amount
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- Using contactless/Oyster and 60+ card for a single journey
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- Key Smartcard season ticket + Oyster
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- Contactless caps and Gatwick
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- Only charged for Zones 1 and 2 for a journey via Zones 3 and 4
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- Ockendon – Tottenham Court Road
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- Gold card discount on Oyster
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- New to rail travel into London
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- What is the cheapest way to travel from Zone 6 to Zone 2?
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- Minimum time between touching out then in at the same station?
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- 60 plus Oyster on trams from Wimbledon
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- Finsbury Park – Broken Journey Cheaper?
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- Z1-4 journey with Z23 travelcard with Gold Card discount
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- Using international bank cards for contactless
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- Usual maximum journey time seems not to have been applied in small hours
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- Charged £6.50 for new Oyster card
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MATTHEW DICKINSON 11/04/2022 at 16:57 on Solving Finsbury ParkThe gateline at the National Rail entrance is now operational and the gateline on Platforms 7/8 has been removed.
akm 28/03/2022 at 12:19 on PAYG in the Thames ValleyBR Fares also clearly shows that that 8.80 is INFO and NOT FOR TRAVEL. It would seem the TOC has
Martin Phillp 28/03/2022 at 03:02 on PAYG in the Thames ValleyOn your fare finder, it shows Forest Hill to Windsor & Eton Central as being £9 single off-peak, yet BR
ess 39 27/03/2022 at 17:02 on PAYG in the Thames ValleyAre there details available for the maximum allowed journey times for these places?
Luke 26/03/2022 at 19:08 on PAYG in the Thames ValleyMe too!
Graham Duthie 26/03/2022 at 16:26 on PAYG in the Thames ValleyAhhh. That makes sense. I'd seen the bus people be able to tell whether a card had been touched in
Graham Duthie 26/03/2022 at 13:11 on PAYG in the Thames ValleyThat's interesting Mike. Don't the mobile Oyster/Contactless readers have a real-time connection back to the database? I thought the revenue
lpgm 26/03/2022 at 10:39 on PAYG in the Thames ValleyThanks, Mike. Good news - especially for us doing single journeys (otherwise we get a paper return ticket, Two Together
Mike 23/03/2022 at 08:58 on Same Station and Continuation Exits/EntriesHi Jason, My experience of using a contactless card to enter and exit the same station within two minutes is
Jason Tang 23/03/2022 at 00:40 on Same Station and Continuation Exits/EntriesHi, "If using a contactless card or device then no charge is made if you exit within two minutes." Is
MATTHEW DICKINSON 18/03/2022 at 08:32 on New Fares from Tuesday – Full DetailsAlthough if you don't have 10p available balance on the account linked to the contactless card or device, the 10p
Sha Kan 13/03/2022 at 17:14 on New Fares from Tuesday – Full DetailsHi Mike, I love the website you are running. It's very extremely helpful 😊 I do have a few questions
Feathers 09/03/2022 at 20:33 on New Fares from Tuesday – Full DetailsLooking at the Fare Finder it appears (for me at least) to still be showing historic cap values (e.g. Z
Len Maull 07/03/2022 at 12:00 on New Fares from Tuesday – Full DetailsCan you tell me how oyster works when starting your journey at Oval and going on by replacement bus. Where
Nick 03/03/2022 at 07:56 on New Fares from Tuesday – Full DetailsHi Mike When I tapped in yesterday morning with a balance under £20 on my Oyster Card I was surprised
Chris Hein 28/02/2022 at 07:36 on New Fares from Tuesday – Full DetailsHow does the weekly cap work this week? As obviously the weekly cap is Monday to Sunday and the new
Nick 16/02/2022 at 17:15 on Fares Change on March 1st AgainHi Mike Just checked my fare, Dartford to Zone 1 tube, and it looks like the single PAYG fare has
Martin Phillp 16/02/2022 at 16:42 on Fares Change on March 1st AgainSome interesting comparisons between the TfL rail mode and the bus for a single zone outside Zone 1. If you're
Dave 14/02/2022 at 21:46 on Fares Change on March 1st AgainYou probably know this already, Mike, but the details of the new March 2022 fares are published in the appendices
Martin Phillp 14/02/2022 at 18:11 on Fares Change on March 1st AgainDo you think the bus & tram discount daily cap will be £2.45 or £2.50 from March?