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s.com of Sat, 15 May 2010 01:30:37 in uk.transport.london, trainmanUK
writes
On 14 May, 23:00, Barry Salter wrote:
On 14/05/2010 22:46, trainmanUK wrote: I went from Piccadilly Circus
to Kings Cross on the piccadilly line.
I went to the Eurostar ticket office to buy a ticket which took about
10 minutes. *I then went from Kings *Cross to Paddington on the
Hammersmith and City. *These were two separate journeys but *seem to
have only been charged for one.
Perfectly correct. King's Cross St. Pancras (Tube) - King's Cross St.
Pancras (Met) is one of several "Out of Station Interchanges" possible
in that area, with a permitted time of 15 minutes between touching out
one of the Tube gate lines and touching in at the Met one.
If you touch back in after more than 15 minutes, it's treated as a new
journey.
Cheers,
Barry
Thats handy to know. Saved me £1.80. Is there a list anywhere of
these break of journey opportunities 
Yes, there is. People are regularly supplied with a list following
Freedom of Information ACT requests. There is one from January at
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/reques...1/attach/3/OSI
s%20with%20times%20Jan%2010.xls. It is not complete. e.g. There is an
OSI between Paddington City (Bakerloo and Lawn ticket halls) and
Paddington Suburban (platforms 15 and 16). I just spent 15 minutes on
the phone to the Oyster Customer Service Centre to ask the question. At
first I was told the answer is 40 minutes which is the time between LU
and NR. 20 minutes was then suggested. I have later information from
April. I am not able to publish it. Sadly, it does not give the OSIs
(probably symmetrical) between the 2 Dalston stations - ISTR, there is
no service at one of those stations due to LOROL's withdrawing trains
for several months.
It should be worth making another FOI request once Overground runs from
Dalston to Croydon. I don't know if it is within the rules to make an
ongoing request for such transient information.
I was pointed at the site by the thread "Bus drivers' Big Red Book".
I like the idea of that site as information provided becomes public.
I am tempted to ask for working timetables. They have provided them on
paper, but deny they can be provided in a machine readable form. I don't
fancy 2100 pages on paper.
I saw Epicentre say "... any self-respecting ticket
office has a queue of at least 15 minutes". This may be true at the 2
old ticket offices in King's Cross (Metropolitan and Tube). The Northern
seems deserted, whenever I visit and Pentonville Road seems ripe for
closure.
--
Walter Briscoe