TfL has announced their fares for 2015 and there is a big surprise. Adult anytime and off-peak caps are being combined into a new all-day cap. This is good news for people travelling in zones 1-3 and anyone travelling a lot and starting before 0930. But if you live in zones 4-6 and travel off-peak you are going to be clobbered for making a lot of journeys.
General News
Gipsy Hill – Another Success
Edwin, a visitor to this site, found out the hard way that there is no avoiding zone 1 fare from Gipsy Hill to Notting Hill Gate. Research on the single fare finder showed that such a fare exists from both West Norwood and Crystal Palace, the stations either side of Gipsy Hill. Frustratingly, the train … Read more
Contactless is here
From today, anyone can use a contactless payment card instead of a normal adult Oyster. It charges the same as Oyster and introduces Monday to Sunday capping as well as daily capping. If you choose to register the card on the TfL website you will get access to journey history for a whole year and … Read more
Southwark and Blackfriars
On Saturday afternoon I went walking around the City in search of book benches with my son. When we had finished we made our way to the north bank entrance to Blackfriars and only then did we realise that FCC trains weren’t serving London Bridge this weekend. The advertised diversion via Elephant and Castle seemed a bit of a detour so we decided to walk a bit more by crossing the river through Blackfriars, along to Southwark and through there to Waterloo East. This gave me a chance to check out a report that walking through Southwark is always free.
Problems with Forum
Unfortunately the site forum has developed a problem (the database is corrupted and inconsistent) and it looks like it will need to be re-started from scratch. If you have posted questions recently then I’m sorry but they won’t be able to be shown or answered. The integration of the forum into the main site also … Read more
National Rail will take contactless
TfL have now confirmed that agreements are in place for contactless payments to be accepted on National Rail services wherever Oyster is available.
Contactless – Good news and bad
Today has seen good news on the use of contactless payment cards on buses, but confirmation of extremely bad news for the use on trains.
Interchanges and Maps
A recent project for this site has involved walking between each pair of stations in OSIs and generating Google maps so people can see what is involved. The full list of OSIs can now be found on it’s own page while the general explanation has been re-written from scratch and renamed Interchanging Trains. In the … Read more
Boris moves a zone boundary
I’m seeing conflicting reports that Boris is planning to move Stratford into zone 2 in January 2016 as part of the Olympic Legacy. The BBC are suggesting that it will move from zone 3 to zone 2, while ITV think the more logical idea would be to run the zone 2/3 boundary through Stratford High … Read more
Contactless is coming to Rail
This morning I attended a briefing at TfL about the soon to be launched contactless payments on rail services. Sadly TfL wouldn’t commit to an actual date, but late summer/early autumn seems likely. At the same time as the rail system goes live, the existing bus facility will be merged with it, offering full capping … Read more