In message , Dave Liney
writes
However for the Ealing Broadway - Paddington fare TfL pricing is more
expensive for a return than rail pricing.

Oyster 2 x £2.30 = £4.60
NR standard day return = £4.20

And off-peak NR comes down to £2.70 whereas the Oyster price only falls at
weekends and even then to only £3.60.

Makes it even odder that you can't use the Oyster (tfl could pay NR the
whole fare and still trouser a profit).

Meanwhile, my Oyster continues to play up :-(

Tried using it at Paddington to get a H&C train (having arrived from EB
on a paper ticket). "Seek assistance". So I did. The glum chap in the
enquiry office there used a handheld reader and said it as because there
was only £1 left. I said I'd only done two trips so far and he gave the
ticket back saying there was now £12 on it. As I was in a hurry (story
of my life!) I went off.

But it started with £17, and I've done a Z1-Z1 and a Z1-Z3 trip, total
of 1.60 + 2.30 = 3.90 ; so why isn't there £14.10 left? Sounds like I
need to check this out again.

--
Roland Perry