asdf wrote:
On 25 Aug 2005 16:36:33 -0700, wrote:
2) It also tells people that a Zone 1-6 Oyster will work to Hadley Wood
or Crews Hill, so it's possible (and significantly cheaper) to get an
Oyster for that part of the journey, and a standard season for the
boundary to your chosen station,
Cheaper? How did you work that one out?
If it's not significantly more expensive I'll eat my hat.
You has better get chomping you old goat!
Monthly season prices
Stevenage - Hadley Wood £142.50
Travelcard - All Zones £151.70
Total £294.20
Stevenage - R1256 £311.10
A saving of £16.90
All the above info has been taken from the WAGN ticket sales website
(you need to register first but that only takes a mo), and does not
take account of any further discounts required under the Passengers
Charter (which can be up to 10%) as these are only available to those
renewing their tickets. The All Zones Travelcard price is thus
obviously the same as if you were to buy it on an Oyster card at a TfL
outlet. With a Passengers Charter discount it would thus be even
cheaper to buy the two seperate tickets from WAGN, rather than have the
All Zones Travelcard on Oyster as Jonathan suggested.
I must say I also found it surprising that the price would work out
cheaper than if it was purchased as a single ticket. It would appear to
be counter-intuitive.
*However* I am unclear as to whether it would be valid to use two
seperate season tickets on a train that did not stop at Hadley Wood -
and I'm not sure any Stevenage London trains do actually stop there (a
quick look at a timetable suggests not). Rather than cause mass
confusion I've thus posted a query asking the ticketing experts over at
uk.railway to clear up any confusion (the thread is entitled "Allowed
to combine season tickets?"). Once I get a definitive answer on that
issue then we'll know whether Jonathan's two ticket hypothesis is
correct or not. And whether asdf needs to start masticating on a bowler
or not.