London Banter - View Single Post - Zonal fares

Nicks · January 13th 07, 09:49 PM posted to uk.transport.london

"Mizter T" wrote in message
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Now resolved - SWT clerk must have done his homework and managed
to sell me a ticket only to Vauxhall, not London Stations yesterday.

Interesting. I sometimes travel out from Vauxhall, where I've
always been sold a ticket from "London Terminals", though I haven't
yet made any such journey this year.

If it's a return ticket then it's useful to have the facility to
travel back to Waterloo, either because the train doesn't stop at
Vauxhall or because that's where I'm heading. I shall see what I'm
sold in the future - perhaps it'll be from Vauxhall for shorter
journeys/those in the zones, and from "London Terminals" for longer
journeys/those outside the zones, as perhaps for such longer
journeys there still isn't a price differential between going from
Vauxhall or Waterloo. Perhaps someone with the current NFM might be
so kind as to investigate?

At Vauxhall the ticket machine offered me a fare to New Malden
based on the zone 2 to zone 4 fare - so this will not be from
London stations.

Another linked issue for me - I have an annual travelcard which is
zones 5 and 6 - so I've been buying tickets to Vauxhall from New
Malden - as this is in zone 4 - SWT clerks have happily sold me 3
tickets this way this year - however for the latest ticket the
clerk said that I need to get a ticket from Berrylands which is in
zone 5 - as he said that my zonal pass is not valid from the
boundry of zone 5 to the first zone 4 station. I suspect he may be
right until the new fares become truly zonal - any guidance
anywhere on this please?

Surely you should be buying a Boundary Zone 5 ticket to Vauxhall?

I agree with your idea that the OP should be issued with a Boundary
Zone ticket to Vauxhall - though it would be from Boundary Zone 4, not
Zone 5 - the zone boundary in ticketing termonology being defined as
the zone's outer boundary in terms of expanding concentric rings from
the centre. It's confusing maybe, given that logic would suggest all
the zones (apart from zone 1) have two boundaries, but that's just how
it is!

Thanks for the comments - SWT clerk said there were no fares for boundary of
zones
"inwards" to London in the ticket machine.