NR ticket sales at Canada Water/Whitechapel

It's been a few years since I've worked in a booking office, but no LUL operated booking office offers the full range of NR tickets, even the stations once known as section 14 stations like Greenford/ West Ruislip. Most LUL stations will offer fares within the old Network Southeast area, although there are some exceptions.

From memory West Ruislip offered fares as far as Birmingham - for the Chiltern Rail service and that tended to be the rule.

I'm guessing that the station range offered by the LUL East London Line stations wouldn't change and would've been offered previously, but the ability to sell tickets with railcard discounts would be a new feature.

In that case, a Canada Water passenger who may fancy a day trip to Brighton or apply for a Y-P railcard may have to travel to Surrey Quays instead?

Wikipedia's East London Line page now shows a National Rail single ticket with the green roundel in the middle as standard at LO stations printed at Rotherhithe station for a £1.60 single to Canada Water.

Incidentally LOROL stations south of New Cross Gate don't have the green roundel yet on paper tickets and I don't think any of them have been Oyster enabled at the ticket office with only 3 weeks to go until launch.

Yes. All LUL ticket offices will sell a range of NR destination tickets, quite a large number of stations in the South East. Some stations would sell an enhanced range. Moorgate would be one of these.

I had a play with the overground ticket machine at Rotherhithe today, and it was offering a range of fairs to Newcastle including the Super Off-Peak return.

Destinations also included Newcastle (Metro) which included travel on some of the Newcastle metro system.

Didn't check if railcards were an option, but thought it would based on the other functionality.

Slightly off topic - how useful was it to be able to go Rotherhithe - Shadwell - Canary Wharf and back when the jubilee is suspended for the weekend. It doesn't seem to have been a big issue, but having all the Jubilee weekend closures at the same time as the ELL was closed was a major headache for the Canada Water area.

I'm sure the LUL ticket machines pre-Oyster with the station buttons on had some of the busier NR stations such as East Croydon and Clapham Junction on them?

Do the LUL/NR (book 6) stations have the ability to make reservations? Or sell advance purchase tickets ?

Yes, they had all the LUL stations, poss DLR and a limited selection of NR stations which I think were in purple?

I remember hoping that Forest Hill would be one of those stations, but it wasn't, although if those machines were still around, it would be now it's a LOROL station.

The idea of having a button for every single station on the network sounds utterly bizarre now!