asdf wrote:
On 6 Jul 2006 07:44:14 -0700, wrote:
Ticket offices sometimes sell you a zonal ticket when there is a
cheaper non-Underground version available; worth checking for this,
Equally, they'll sometimes do the opposite!
Like the time I was sold a ticket only valid on "The Other Railway"
from one of the Greenwich stations to Vauxhall.
(How many Greenwich stations are there?)
At a quick count, four: Greenwich station (NR and DLR); Cutty Sark
(DLR); and North Greenwich (Jubilee Line); and Maze Hill (NR) which is
in East Greenwich. Though the only place you'd be sold a NR ticket to
Vauxhall would be Greenwich station proper.
By the by I'm not sure North Greenwich station should really be have
been named as such, it should perhaps have been named Greenwich
Peninsula instead.
Why? There was long gone North Greenwich station (closed 1926) on the
southern tip of the Isle of Dogs over the river from Greenwich - see
the Disused Stations website [1]. This mirrors the north-of-the-river
naming of North Woolwich, across the Thames from Woolwich proper.
However the area name of North Woolwich seems to have stuck - well,
it's used on streetmaps at least, I haven't spoken to anyone local to
the area, whilst I've no idea if anyone ever called the area on the
south of the Isle of Dogs "North Greenwich" apart from the railway. No
one calls the area that now, I'm (almost) certain of that.
Meanwhile the Greenwich Peninsula appears to be the name is use - above
ground at least - for the area around the Dome, and I think this is
what people called it before the coming of the Dome and the Jubilee
line too.
This is really a local history question, but it definitely has a
railway/transport angle.
You can get there without going on the underground, but it's tortuous
and takes about twice as long, so I wound up having to buy a zonal
ticket in addition!
Did you spot the NR-only route via Waterloo East and Waterloo? It's
probably quicker than any route involving the Underground.
Yeah, I'm certain that's quicker than any other route. The routes via
overground *and* the Tube are the more tortuous - I guess you'd go to
London Bridge and take the Jubilee to Green Park, then the Victoria to
Vauxhall, alternatively from London Bridge you'd go southbound on the
Northern to Stockwell and change to the Victoria northbound to
Vauxhall. Definitely a longer route than Greenwich to Waterloo East
(with a possible change at London Bridge), then Waterloo proper to
Vauxhall.