Slade Green to Gatwick Airport peak fares

Hi,

I’m curious about the peak fares from Slade Green to Gatwick Airport.

It seems to be £17.50 via zone 1 or £14.20 via two specific routes avoiding zone 1.

If you split at East Croydon that comes down to £13.70 via zone 1 or £11.10 via two specific routes avoiding zone 1.

The specific routes avoiding zone 1 are a bit odd: first via a change at Canada Water tapping the pink reader. That’s fine although the more obvious way of getting from Slade Green onto the Overground (East London Line) would be via Whitechapel. The other specified route is via New Cross/New Cross Gate – this one doesn’t require a tap on a pink reader which I assume is because it’s an OSI so the system will automatically know if you’ve gone that way.

My questions are:

1. Does this mean that if you neither tap out at New Cross and in at New Cross Gate, nor tap on the pink reader at Surrey Quays, it will be assumed that you travelled via zone 1?

2. Isn’t there a pink reader at Whitechapel? What would happen if you went via Whitechapel and tapped on the pink reader there?

3. What’s the peak fare if you travel via Lewisham to Elmers End, take the tram to East Croydon and tap in there for the train to Gatwick?

• This topic was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by redreni.