On 12 Nov, 21:08, (Neil Williams)
wrote:
On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:19:58 -0800, Mizter T
wrote:

Of course there would still be the tricky issue of which route the
Oyster system presumed you had taken, regardless of what actual route
you did in fact take.

Richmond-Stratford, anyone?

Neil


If you up thread you'll see that's exactly the kind of issue I was
focussing on, specifically with reference to the North London Line.

You can extrapolate the Oyster routing assumptions made by querying
the TfL "Single Fare finder" facility - as a non-Z1 journey is charged
at £1 and a via Z1 journey is charged at £2.50 peak / £2 off-peak.

Richmond to as far as Caledonian Road & Barnesbury is defined as a non-
Z1 journey, whilst one stop further to Highbury & Islington is defined
as via Z1.

Meanwhile Stratford to Kensal Rise is defined as a non-Z1 journey,
whilst one stop further to Willesden Junction is defined as via Z1.

I genuinely wonder if there isn't an exception written in to the
system to cater for zone 2&3(&4) season Travelcards and journeys along
the NLL - otherwise a number of people making their normal NLL commute
today using a Z2&3 Travelcard loaded on an Oyster card would have been
in for a bit of a surprise today as the system would have attempted to
charge them the extra for a Z1 journey.

I am very curious about this, and I'd really like to know what is
actually happening on the ground (I might just do it to find out).