Train ticket v Oyster advice

[Atticus]

Hi,

I travel from Ed or Peckham Rye to Syon Lane to work.

Normally I buy a ticket ?2.60 each way. The journey takes me to Battersea Park where I change and walk to Queenstown Road to get a train which then takes me to Syon Lane. The barriers at the stations beep but the staff are normally happy to let me through as this is considered as one legitimate journey.

I decided to start using Oyster but then get charged for two journeys. One option would be to go Battersea Park to Clapham Junction and then continue my journey from there. This is a real hassle in rush hour.

The other option is to buy a weekly pass but often I don't have to make the journey enough times to make it viable.

Any other options? (apologies for what is possibly the driest thread ever to darken your pixels).

[Ramble66]

It should be ?2.20 with oyster peak and ?1.70 off peak. Did you check your journey details online? At the end of your journey it should recalculate. Make sure you tape in and out for each stage.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/tickets/faresandtickets/farefinder/current/default.aspx

[Atticus]

Thanks Ramble, pretty sure I get charged for two journeys though... ED to BP, then QR to SY, yet the national rail website recognises this as one journey.

[ianr]

I suspect that if you used Oyster on the 3-stage NR route via Clapham Junction via Streatham Common or West Norwood you'd get charged ?2.20/?1.70.

But Battersea Park Queenstown Road isn't on the list of Out of Station Interchanges (OSIs) recognised within the Oyster system. http://www.oyster-rail.org.uk/out-of-station-interchange-osi/

I do see the anomaly: one of the variants shown on the NR journey planner, for your ?2.60 NR ticket, does include the walk from Battersea Park to Queenstown Road.

I'd seek advice on a specialist forum (one I know of is Usenet's uk.transport.london) if you're interested in pursuing it. It seems that the OSI list isn't absolutely static.

[ianr]

Afterthoughts.

It seems to get even more anomalous. The _only_ ?2.60 NR fare I've seen on the NR journey planner is with the walk. The one via Streatham Common has to be split into two NR tickets for a total ?4.70, for reasons I don't understand. That makes me half doubt that a peak Oyster via the same route would still be ?2.20, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be, as the standard zones 2-4 Oyster NR peak fare. http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tickets/14414.aspx

The same journey planner seems unwilling to even suggest using a train from Battersea Park to Clapham Junction for your journey. I think they must want you to do the walk.

Enough. Now even I have better things to do.

[Atticus]

Many thanks Ian