asdf wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:51:01 +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:


I'll leave it to someone else to try doing a break of journey in
Reading with that ticket!

Sounds like a challenge. Any Barriers at Reading?

Yes. Thousands of 'em.

CORE [1] also thinks this (Paddington to Reading via Slough, Reading to
Clapham Junction via Staines) is the shortest route, and puts it at 75:27
miles.


Presumably only if you tell it not to count walks or cross-London
transfers as part of the shortest route.

Besides, even then, it's not the shortest route from London Terminals
to Clapham Junction (which is what's actually printed on the ticket).


Wasn't the strange thing about the ticket in question that the screen
displayed "London Paddington" to "Clapham Junction" to the price of
£2.10 but when he got the printed ticket in his hand it was "London
Terminals" to "Clapham Junction"?

I was thinking about this:


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