On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 00:43:04 +0100, Paul Corfield
wrote:

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:53:56 +0100, asdf
wrote:

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:01:17 +0100, Dave Arquati wrote:

- TOCs will introduce zonal fares in January 2007, thus paving the way
for an easy PAYG rollout

This point seems to be the most intruiging, and the biggest shake-up.
It seems that the same fares will apply across all TOCs. I suppose
this means that fares on some routes will go up and on other routes
will go down. What will happen to CDRs and Railcard discounts? Will
the changes spread outside the zones, or could it be cheaper to buy a
return from the first station outside the zones if travelling from
Zone 6 to Zone 1? How will fares from NR to Tube stations be
calculated? What about if the NR journey starts outside the zones?

I printed off the 2007 fares guide at work so I'll stick a post up
tomorrow about what the tube-train fares are. I don't have enough info
to answer most of your questions but the numbers might help explain
things a bit.

I said I would post something on the train-tube fares so here goes.

The new train-tube fares are as follows
Fares including zone 1
Adult Child
Peak Off Peak Peak Off Peak
Single Return Return Single Return Return
1 zone 400 - - 200 - -
2 zones 410 660* 510* 200 330* 200*
3 zones 470 780* 570* 230 390* 200*
4 zones 510 900* 570* 250 450* 200*
5 zones 580 1120* 670* 290 560* 200*
6 zones 680 1320* 670* 340 660* 200*

Fares not including Z1

1 zone 300 560 460* 150 280 200*
2 zones 340 630 460* 170 310 200*
3 zones 380 700 460* 190 350 200*
4 zones 420 770 460* 210 390 200*
5 zones 460 800* 460* 230 400* 200*

* the appropriate peak / off peak day travelcard is issued instead.

There is nothing mentioned about NR services adopting zonal fares in the
staff briefing document. I imagine that might be because the NR Fares
Offices are still working out what will apply when and how.

I imagine a certain Mr Doe will be kept very busy looking at the ins and
outs of this issue.
--
Paul C


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