Train fare anomaly

[Twirly]

Can anyone explain why, when using Oyster pay as you go, it costs 50p more to travel from Denmark Hill to Victoria than from Peckham Rye to Victoria? I only just noticed this when checking my journey history, and am somewhat puzzled since it?s exactly the same line, and I'd have thought that the journey from Denmark Hill should be cheaper since it?s a stop less.

[StraferJack]

is this everytime or was the PR trip at the end of a day? Perhaps it charged less because you had reached your daily cap?

[willma]

You may also have tapped in during the evening peak. There is now an evening peak for oyster between 4pm and 7pm so this might account for the extra 50p.

[intexasatthe moment]

And on a slightly different note - can anyone explain how you link your Oyster card to your 16-25 year old train card ?

[Jeremy]

I think there will just be a fixed price to a central London station. That line is unusual as both ends are in Central London... but for the purposes of pricing, Peckham Rye is probably considered to be closer to central London.

[Loz]

I found a corking pricing anomaly. I often travel to Bridgend, Wales. If I buy a super off-peak ticket at Paddington it costs ?69. If I buy it at ED station it is ?71, so a very reasonable ?2 to cross London both ways.

But, one day I needed to buy a single super off-peak from Bridgend back to ED - and they wanted a rather incredible ?71! How much to Paddington, I asked - it was ?40. So an amazing ?31 was being charged to cross London!!

[Twirly]

Willma - I think you may be right. The DH journey was about 4.30pm. Definitely not the daily price cap, as the train journey was only the 2nd journey of the day (the bus to the respective stations being the first). I didn't know that there was a second peak time for fares. Not that it matters much, as the daily cap was still the off-peak one of ?6.60. I was just curious, so thank you for solving that mystery.

Loz - that probably has to go down as being one of the most overpriced train journeys in the country!