Re: Zone extension ticket fares

Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 18:32:27 -0000
Newsgroups: uk.transport.london
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Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Geoff Marshall
(email-address-deleted), in message
news:b5cupi$nsa$email-address-deleted who said:
> Friend of mine has a Zone 2 weekly travelcard.
>
> She was at Wimbledon this morning (Zone 3) and rightly wanted to buy
> an extension to cover her to Zone 2. You can get South West Trains
> or District Line from here back into town. Apparantly the ticket guy
> asked her if she was going by tube or overground train. "Overground
> train" she says "why?".
>
> and apparantly there is a difference in cost .. £1.60 for an
> extension if going by overground train, but yet only £1 if going on
> the tube ... Huh? Anyone know why this is?
Good question.
And perhaps the same person can explain how
Tooting to Liverpool St. (Thameslink to Farringdon and small amount of
underground in zone 1)
costs almost _twice_ as much as either:
Tooting to Farringdon (all Thameslink)
or
Tooting Broadway to z1 (all Underground)
BTN