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Dartford in zone 8 from Sunday

26/08/202104/09/2015 by Mike

TfL have now confirmed that Dartford will be in zone 8 from Sunday 6th September. The previously predicted fares have been confirmed apart from the through fare to Underground in zone 1 (the zone 2 fare was wrong but has been corrected). The PAYG fares offer considerable savings over paper tickets for a single fare … Read more

Oyster at Dartford

26/08/202129/08/2015 by Mike

The Southeastern website confirms that Oyster will be accepted at Dartford from Sunday September 6th. It doesn’t list any fares, and customer services can’t confirm them either, but a little digging through the new fares database reveals that these are likely to be the adult fares:

Oyster at Stratford International

26/08/202131/07/2015 by Mike

Oyster and Contactless PAYG are now accepted for travel on Southeastern High Speed services between St Pancras and Stratford International stations. The fare charged is a special fare, like those for the Emirates cable car and the Thames Clipper riverboats and it does not count towards any daily caps. It will also split any longer … Read more

New Hackney Interchange

26/08/202104/06/2015 by Mike

Thanks in part to Noel and PC for spotting this. I visited the stations at Hackney Central and Downs last night and spoke with staff. The new link is due to open in the summer and will provide a direct walkway from Platform 1 at Hackney Downs to Platform 2 at Hackney Central. There will … Read more

New fares for Greater Anglia services

26/08/202121/05/2015 by Mike

Details have been announced about the new Oyster fares from Liverpool Street starting on May 31st. TfL zonal fares will apply to all services between Liverpool Street and Cheshunt, Chingford or Harold Wood except where the TfL rate is higher than the old NR rate. Some fares, particularly off-peak outside zone 1, will be higher … Read more

Brentwood moves to zone 9

26/08/202121/05/2015 by Mike

Information is slowly trickling through about the transfer of various Greater Anglia services to TfL. It seems that Brentwood is due to move from its own zone to zone 9 from next month. It’ll be quite a jump from zone 6 at Harold Wood though.

Odd period seasons available online

26/08/202114/05/2015 by Mike

Quite by chance I noticed that odd period travelcard season tickets can now be ordered online for collection by an Oyster card. Previously you could only order weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and annual travelcards. Now you can specify any period between one month and one year. This is especially useful when making monthly tickets last … Read more

Off-Peak Cap Refunds Due Today

26/08/202110/04/2015 by Mike

I have found out more about the automatic refunds for people regularly travelling after 0930 (or any time at weekends) from zones 4-6. The good news is that the first refunds should be available today. Here is my understanding of how the system works.

Contactless charging less than Oyster

26/08/202108/03/2015 by Mike

I’ve recently had several queries where people were charged less than they expected using a CPC, or even less than they were charged making the same journeys with Oyster at a different time. The reason is the different way that capping is calculated when using CPCs. There’s a new page which tries to explain the … Read more

Oyster at LM ticket offices

26/08/202104/03/2015 by Mike

It’s been brought to my attention that London Midland are to cease allowing Oyster transactions at their ticket offices at both Euston and Watford Junction from April this year. This is yet another kick in the teeth by TOCs following similar actions by Southeastern and South West Trains in recent years.