PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
 

https://twitter.com/TfLWaystoPay/status/627079160272453632

As per the single fare finder, the adult fares are £5.40 Peak (0630-0930
weekdays) and £3.80 Off-peak (or £2.50 with the 'national Railcard'
discount loaded on an Oyster, only during the Off-peak window).

For comparison paper tickets cost £6 for an Anytime single, £10.90 for
an Anytime Day Return or £7.60 for an Off-Peak Day Return (valid from
10.00am onwards from Stratford to St P, and from 09.30am onwards from St
P to Stratford).

(So the PAYG pricing logic appears to be that a PAYG Peak single is half
a paper Anytime Day Return, and a PAYG Off-Peak single is half a paper
Off-Peak Day Return.)

No through journey fares show, e.g. there's no through journey fare for
Stratford Intl to St P by highspeed then onto Oxford Circus by Tube. Nor
do there appear to be any daily (or for contactless, weekly) caps.

So it just seems to be a straightforward standalone offering - a bit
like paying by Oyster for a ride on a Thames Clipper or the cable car.
(Of course the SE Highspeed service exists outside the zonal system in
the first place.)

Regular commuters would do better to consider a (paper) season ticket -
£31.60 for a week, £121.40 for a month etc.

Still, it's welcome as it cuts out the faff of a ticket purchase. And
it's the easiest, if not the cheapest, way from King's Cross or St
Pancras to City Airport in the Royal Docks (with a direct DLR service to
LCY from Stratford Int'l station).

An aside... when is Newham going to announce its UDI so the station's
name becomes appropriate?

PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
 

Mizter T wrote:
https://twitter.com/TfLWaystoPay/status/627079160272453632

As per the single fare finder, the adult fares are £5.40 Peak (0630-0930
weekdays) and £3.80 Off-peak (or £2.50 with the 'national Railcard'
discount loaded on an Oyster, only during the Off-peak window).

For comparison paper tickets cost £6 for an Anytime single, £10.90 for an
Anytime Day Return or £7.60 for an Off-Peak Day Return (valid from
10.00am onwards from Stratford to St P, and from 09.30am onwards from St P to Stratford).

(So the PAYG pricing logic appears to be that a PAYG Peak single is half
a paper Anytime Day Return, and a PAYG Off-Peak single is half a paper
Off-Peak Day Return.)

No through journey fares show, e.g. there's no through journey fare for
Stratford Intl to St P by highspeed then onto Oxford Circus by Tube. Nor
do there appear to be any daily (or for contactless, weekly) caps.

So it just seems to be a straightforward standalone offering - a bit like
paying by Oyster for a ride on a Thames Clipper or the cable car. (Of
course the SE Highspeed service exists outside the zonal system in the first place.)

Regular commuters would do better to consider a (paper) season ticket -
£31.60 for a week, £121.40 for a month etc.

Still, it's welcome as it cuts out the faff of a ticket purchase. And
it's the easiest, if not the cheapest, way from King's Cross or St
Pancras to City Airport in the Royal Docks (with a direct DLR service to
LCY from Stratford Int'l station).

The cheaper H&C to West Ham, then DLR to LCY isn't much harder.

PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
 

Well, it's already declared itself to be a city. There was a sign near the bus station saying that it was proud to be a host city of some international sporting event, Rugby I think.

. . . and buses running down Leyton High Road have "Stratford City" on their
destination boards.

PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
 

"Robin9" wrote in message
...

;149750 Wrote:
Well, it's already declared itself to be a city. There was a sign near
the bus station saying that it was proud to be a host city of some
international sporting event, Rugby I think.

. . . and buses running down Leyton High Road have "Stratford City" on
their
destination boards.

Oh!

because that's the name of the shopping centre :-(

We'll have someone complaining next that when they get on a bus with
"Victoria" on the board it doesn't take them to Canada

tim

PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
 

"tim....." wrote:
"Robin9" wrote in message
...

;149750 Wrote:
Well, it's already declared itself to be a city. There was a sign near
the bus station saying that it was proud to be a host city of some
international sporting event, Rugby I think.

. . . and buses running down Leyton High Road have "Stratford City" on
their
destination boards.

Oh!

because that's the name of the shopping centre :-(

We'll have someone complaining next that when they get on a bus with
"Victoria" on the board it doesn't take them to Canada

Or Australia.

I've yet to hear anyone round here call either shopping centre "Stratford
City". The new one is universally referred to as "Westfield" and the old one
was always known as "the Stratford shopping centre."

PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
 

It's also the (silly) name of the small bus station near the Northern exit from the station, and the whole development on the old railway lands. However, it is Newham, not Stratford, which declares that it is proud to be a host city for, I think, the Rugby World Cup.

PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
 

Robin9 wrote:

I've yet to hear anyone round here call either shopping centre "Stratford
City". The new one is universally referred to as "Westfield" and the old
one was always known as "the Stratford shopping centre."

HSBC use it as the name for their branch in Westfield. It gets very annoying
when trying to arrange to collect something from there and the phone
operator can't grasp that you're using the name that EVERYBODY uses for it.

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PAYG now live on SE Highspeed twixt St Pancras and Stratford
 

This might come in usful for my attempt to use all London Transport methods in the shortest time.

Bus, Tram, Tube, Train, Emirates, DLR... That's it.