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Tomorrow (Friday) I've got to travel into Waterloo East from Headcorn with Southeastern. I've got a Z1-4 travelcard on my Oyster so I wanted to know if I can just buy a paper ticket for the bit of the journey from Headcorn to the Z4 boundary and then let my Oyster pick up the rest of the journey from that point and, if so, does anyone know which station I need to buy my ticket to?

A.

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AndreaC wrote in
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Tomorrow (Friday) I've got to travel into Waterloo East from Headcorn
with Southeastern. I've got a Z1-4 travelcard on my Oyster so I wanted
to know if I can just buy a paper ticket for the bit of the journey
from Headcorn to the Z4 boundary and then let my Oyster pick up the
rest of the journey from that point and, if so, does anyone know which
station I need to buy my ticket to?

A.





Elmstead Woods.

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On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 22:43:56 +0000, AndreaC wrote:

Tomorrow (Friday) I've got to travel into Waterloo East from Headcorn
with Southeastern. I've got a Z1-4 travelcard on my Oyster so I wanted
to know if I can just buy a paper ticket for the bit of the journey
from Headcorn to the Z4 boundary and then let my Oyster pick up the
rest of the journey from that point

Yes.

and, if so, does anyone know which station I need to buy my ticket to?

Elmstead Woods.

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David Jackman wrote:
AndreaC wrote in
:


Tomorrow (Friday) I've got to travel into Waterloo East from Headcorn
with Southeastern. I've got a Z1-4 travelcard on my Oyster so I wanted

Elmstead Woods.

Doesn't the train need to stop there for that to be valid? (otherwise
buy a Headcorn-boundry Z4)

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Paul Weaver wrote:
Tomorrow (Friday) I've got to travel into Waterloo East from Headcorn
with Southeastern. I've got a Z1-4 travelcard on my Oyster so I wanted

Elmstead Woods.

Doesn't the train need to stop there for that to be valid? (otherwise
buy a Headcorn-boundry Z4)

No, because a Travelcard is a season ticket and not (as you might
expect) a PTE ticket. And you can only buy tickets *from* BZn, not *to*
BZn...

(when I visit my family in Guildford and stay overnight, I can buy a
BZ2 - Guildford single on the way out, if I can be bothered to face
the queues at Waterloo ticket office, but need to buy a Guildford -
Clapham Junction ticket on the way back. Which works even on the fast
trains that avoid CJ).

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john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

Tomorrow (Friday) I've got to travel into Waterloo East from Headcorn
with Southeastern. I've got a Z1-4 travelcard on my Oyster so I wanted
to know if I can just buy a paper ticket for the bit of the journey
from Headcorn to the Z4 boundary and then let my Oyster pick up the
rest of the journey from that point

Yes.

and, if so, does anyone know which station I need to buy my ticket to?

Elmstead Woods.


Thanks a lot for the answers - I just had time to check the board before leaving this morning and it certainly worked because the woman in the ticket office didn't bat an eyelid at being asked for a ticket to Elmstead Woods even though the trains from Headcorn don't go there.

A.

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In article .com,
(John B) wrote:

And you can only buy tickets *from* BZn, not *to* BZn...

If that even. See my post about BZ2 to St Albans non-fares.

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Colin Rosenstiel

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On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:39:02 +0000, AndreaC wrote:

Thanks a lot for the answers - I just had time to check the board
before leaving this morning and it certainly worked becuase the woman
in the ticket office didn't bat an eyelid at being asked for a ticket
to Elmstead Woods even though the trains don't stop there.

There's really nothing strange about someone asking for a ticket to a
station that isn't served by direct trains...

To add to this slightly, can anyone tell me which station I'd need to get my extension ticket to/from for a journey between Euston and Milton Keynes using my 1-4 oyster season ticket?

Andrea

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In ,
AndreaC typed:

To add to this slightly, can anyone tell me which station I'd need to
get my extension ticket to/from for a journey between Euston and
Milton Keynes using my 1-4 oyster season ticket?

You wouldn't need to get it from/to a station, but from/to the boundary
of Z4.



--
Bob

Bob Wood typed:
You wouldn't need to get it from/to a station, but from/to the boundary
of Z4.

But in an earlier post the advice was:

And that has certainly been the way it has worked on SE Trains - coming in to London from Headcorn I got a return to/from Elmstead Woods, going out of London I got a return to Headcorn from/to BZn4...

Which takes me back to my original (not quite clear) question - which station would I need a ticket for in order to get me into Z4 if coming down from Milton Keynes?

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In ,
AndreaC typed:[i]
Bob Wood typed:
You wouldn't need to get it from/to a station, but from/to the
boundary

of Z4.

But in an earlier post the advice was:

John B Wrote:[i]
No, because a Travelcard is a season ticket and not (as you might
expect) a PTE ticket. And you can only buy tickets *from* BZn, not
*to* BZn...

And that has certainly been the way it has worked on SE Trains -
coming in to London from Headcorn I got a return to/from Elmstead
Woods, going out of London I got a return to Headcorn from/to BZn4...

Which takes me back to my original (not quite clear) question - which
station would I need a ticket for in order to get me into Z4 if coming
down from Milton Keynes?

If coming *from* Milton Keynes, you would need a ticket to the first
station in Z4.
If going *to* Milton Keynes, you would need a ticket from 'boundary Z4'.



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Bob

Yes, I know. And that is precisely what I tried to clarify in the post you have just responded to without actually answering my question. So, can someone please tell me the first station inside Z4 or perhaps I should just go back to my corner now...

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Bob Wood wrote:

If coming *from* Milton Keynes, you would need a ticket to the first
station in Z4.


To save AndreaC asking a THIRD time, would anyone like to say what
station this is? :-)

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"Dave Newt" wrote in message
...
Bob Wood wrote:

If coming *from* Milton Keynes, you would need a ticket to the first
station in Z4.

To save AndreaC asking a THIRD time, would anyone like to say what station
this is? :-)

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/pdfdocs/lon_con.pdf seems to say Kenton.
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David Biddulph

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On Jan 29, 10:23 pm, Dave Newt wrote:
Bob Wood wrote:
If coming *from* Milton Keynes, you would need a ticket to the first
station in Z4.To save AndreaC asking a THIRD time, would anyone like to say what
station this is? :-)


It must be Kenton, but no trains from Milton Keynes would ever stop
there. I assume the season ticket rule doesn't worry about different
types of electrification.

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In ,
AndreaC typed:
Bob Wood Wrote:

AndreaC-
Which takes me back to my original (not quite clear) question - which
station would I need a ticket for in order to get me into Z4 if
coming
down from Milton Keynes?-

If coming *from* Milton Keynes, you would need a ticket to the first
station in Z4.
If going *to* Milton Keynes, you would need a ticket from 'boundary
Z4'.

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Bob



Yes, I know. And that is precisely what I tried to clarify in the post
you have just responded to without actually answering my question. So,
can someone please tell me the first station inside Z4 or perhaps I
should just go back to my corner now...


Sorry - I hadn;t realised that you were asking for the name of the
specific station. As others have already said, it's Kenton.



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Bob

Thanks guys!