Barry Salter wrote:
Arthur Figgis wrote:
"There are over 330 rail stations within the Travelcard zones, and at
present each of 97,300 different station-to-station combinations has
its own set of fares."

Does this add up?

So what am I failing to see? Perhaps an effect of the zonal fares
already in place, so (say) Waddon, West Croydon and Carshalton
Beeches (etc) don't have their own sets of fares?


The way the fares system currently works is that each station is either
"fully-priced", in which case it has fares to local stations and *every*
other "fully-priced" station on the network, or it's a related station,
which will only have local fares, and for anything else you'll need to
look at the appropriate "fully-priced" station.

(snip)

So it's entirely possible that the figure of 97,300 combinations is
correct but it'd take a while to check

I wondered if some pairs were not priced because of the stupidity of
making a journey - e.g. Walthamstow Central to Walthamstow Queens Road.


However, the Trainline comes back with two routes for this:
via Hackney Downs Seven Sisters walk South Tottenham - 85 minutes
- £4.90 CDS
or walk - 17 minutes - no price

so perhaps that's not it!