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Old January 12th 09, 02:12 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default Oysterisation

On Jan 12, 2:03*pm, "Michael R N Dolbear" wrote:
Mizter T wrote



The other thing to say is that the ES article might have managed to
mangle things up somewhat. However it would appear that SWT is

somehow
causing problems here - which is kind of funny, because when the new


The problem may be with journeys that use both SWT and Tube (and indeed
with journeys that might). The present rail & tube fairs are quite
expensive compared with NR only and Tube only are they not ?

SWT may suspect they will get less income than in the paper tickets era
since with paper it is clearer who sold the ticket and whose route was
used.


I was wondering if SWT was the only TOC affected by new NR Oyster
routes which can also be covered by LU (ie there is already a price
between those stations).

But of course the New Crosses will create similar situations, as do
Wimbledon to Blackfriars, Brixton or Balham to Victoria etc.