Can I share another absurd feature of the Project Oval scheme as it is currently operating.
I travelled with the family from Sevenoaks to Windsor & Eton Riverside (WNR) travelling out around lunchtime and back on the 18.53 from WNR and then on the 20.11 from Waterloo East to Sevenoaks. Both of these trains are “off peak”, WNR-WAT (inbound to Zone 1 in PM peak) and 20.11 (WAE to SEV) after PM peak. However, booked as a through ticket on a TVM or TOC website it is currently charged as a peak journey – presumably because one leg starts before 19.00 despite it being an offpeak journey.
It seems to me absurd that two offpeak journeys are charged as a peak fare on a through ticket.
When PAYG arrives, will TfL’s back office system recognise that it is impossible to catch a peak train from Zone 1 if a passenger catches the 1853 at Windsor?