"Mizter T" wrote in message

On Jan 30, 1:16 pm, "Recliner" wrote:


Regarding the maximum journey time limit - this changed from two hours
to two and a half hours some time ago (a year or two ago), and was
subsequently changed again - it's now no longer a unilaterally fixed
limit but is now variable - the variables being the length of the
journey (that is, how many zones you pass through), and also the time
and day of the journey (e.g. journeys on sundays are allowed more time
because of the less frequent service).

Peter Smyth put in an FOI request for this info last year, and posted
the results here on utl - see (via gg):
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.tr...4747db850d431f

(Of course I suppose these time limits might have changed since then,
but I haven't come across anything to suggest they have.)

It was still two hours when I inadvertently put it to the test. I would
have been cheesed off if it had penalised me, too, as I'd missed going
to a meeting because of the slow running of the trains and a further
delay at (of course) Edgware Road. I decided to go straight home
instead, and got there almost exactly two hours after entering the
system (so I got charged for a zone 6-3-4 journey, ignoring the fact
that I'd passed through zone 1 along the way).