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
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
The transfer of the information pages from the old site is just about complete now. While copying stuff over I’ve taken the opportunity to improve some of the pages. The highlights are listed below. I’m still in the process of clearing down much of the old site. Many of the old information pages now automatically … Read more
It’s nearly a year since TfL changed the £5 deposit for an adult Oyster card to a £5 fee, refundable after a year. They’ve now provided some details as to how this will work. First here’s the general text: From 23 February 2021, customers who purchased a new Oyster card in the past year will … Read more
At the same time that the single bus/tram fare rises by 5p to £1.55, TfL are making a change to the ‘secret’ grace period at the end of the hopper hour. As many people have found out, the hopper hour has actually been 70 minutes long. Originally 70 minutes was the time allowed to enable … Read more
You may remember that I wrote about a problem with National Rail fare increases back in October. I’m disappointed to report that exactly the same problem will occur on March 1st this year, meaning that the cumulative effect is getting worse. As a reminder, when applying small increases (circa 2.5%) to fares below £4, the … Read more
Details of the new fares from 1st March 2021 have been released today. As predicted, the average increase is 2.6% which is last July’s inflation rate of 1.6% plus a 1% uplift mandated by the government. Both TfL and NR fares are subject to increases this year, although TfL have chosen to freeze a few … Read more
… or not, as the case is this year. In case you hadn’t yet heard, the annual fares revision which usually takes place on Jan 2nd every year has been postponed this year. It’s currently scheduled for Monday 1st March, but that is dependant on getting the data to the software provider by Friday 15th … Read more
A couple of new OSIs have been added to the list on this site. There is a new entrance to Highbury & Islington station in Highbury Station Road and this OSI links the new entrance to the existing main entrance. In a victory for this site, TfL have added a new OSI between the National … Read more
It appears that the connection issues at Kidbrooke station have finally been fixed. All my journey history has updated to show the correct touches. I travelled via Kidbrooke this afternoon and initially it didn’t seem ok as there was no sign of the touches half an hour after making them (it’s usually updated within 5 … Read more