I’ve finally been hit with the mystery invisible pink reader phenomenon. On Monday I made the journey shown in the image. The touch in at Waterloo mainline was definitely made at a gateline with a yellow reader attached, yet the journey history describes it as a pink reader. I wonder whether it might be connected … Read more
I’ve added a new section in the menu above called Longer Reads. This is for articles which don’t really fit in the information pages but have a longer shelf life than latest news. I’ll be adding more topics in the future, but the first one is a look at the cheap short-hop fares which cross … Read more
Today the zone 1 boundary moved south to Kennington station and then along the Northern line to Elephant & Castle. This means that Kennington is now on the boundary between zones 1 and 2 rather than in zone 2 alone. The reason for this is because the new Northern line extension to Nine Elms and … Read more
When Oyster was rolled out to National Rail services in 2010 there were a number of National Rail stations where ticket offices had facilities to retail Oyster products. This included selling travelcards, adding discount entitlement, printing journey histories and of course selling the Oyster cards and topping up credit. To do this a station had … Read more
TfL have announced that Kennington will be moved from zone 2 to the boundary of zones 1 and 2 from next Sunday, May 16th. The move is necessary to enable the new zone 1 stations at Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station to be connected to the rest of zone 1. The Northern line extension … Read more
Back in June last year I reported on an issue when changing at Blackfriars between platform 1 and platforms 2-4. I was reminded about this issue a few days ago so decided to go and try it out. I’m delighted to report that it appears to have been fixed. The journey I made was Kentish … Read more
You may have noticed that not much has happened on this site in the last two months. The reason for this is that I’ve been working for the ONS as a Census Officer in the field. I finished last week and gave myself a restful bank holiday weekend off from any work, the highlight being … Read more