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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2009 0:42:51 GMT
Does anyone know what the ticketing arrangements on the East London Railway will be when it reopens as part of the Overground - will the ticket offices and machines be London Underground, National Rail or DLR/Tramlink type? It would be useful if National Rail ticketing was adopted across the whole Overground, as being able to get through tickets to anywhere on the NR network and railcard discounts makes things better from my point of view.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2009 3:31:30 GMT
Does anyone know what the ticketing arrangements on the East London Railway will be when it reopens as part of the Overground - will the ticket offices and machines be London Underground, National Rail or DLR/Tramlink type? It would be useful if National Rail ticketing was adopted across the whole Overground, as being able to get through tickets to anywhere on the NR network and railcard discounts makes things better from my point of view. It'll be the same as on the current network with NR fares but within the zonal boundaries. Oyster will of course be vaild from day one in all its forms. Railcards are accepted currently and I dont believe there is any chance this will change. How ever there seems to be plans affot to put Shoreditch High Street in Zone 1 so anyone using the new link will have to pay the higher fare. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2009 7:27:13 GMT
Sorry if I didn't make it clear - I didn't mean the fare zones or the acceptance of tickets, Oyster etc, I meant what physical equipment will be installed at the station ticket offices? LU UTS type equipment, NR APTIS* type equipment, and what passenger operated machines will be. And after the example of Wood Lane, will all stations actually have a staffed ticket window? Basically, will I be able to buy a ticket from Wapping to Lincoln using my YP railcard or will I have to rebook at King's Cross as before?
* defunct I know, easier to say than all the different successors!
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Post by 21146 on Apr 16, 2009 16:38:29 GMT
I thought the 'core' will not be part of the National Rail system, will not sell the full range of NR tickets, and thus will not have the 'BR/NR' double-arrow symbol alongside the LO roundel on the station 'totem'. (See LO sign manual on the TFL site.)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2009 16:49:42 GMT
How ever there seems to be plans affot to put Shoreditch High Street in Zone 1 so anyone using the new link will have to pay the higher fare. How would that work seeing that the stations either side (Whitechapel and Hoxton) would be zone 2? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2009 23:36:58 GMT
I thought the 'core' will not be part of the National Rail system, will not sell the full range of NR tickets, and thus will not have the 'BR/NR' double-arrow symbol alongside the LO roundel on the station 'totem'. (See LO sign manual on the TFL site.) That's what I feared, although I had hoped National Rail ticketing equipment might have been installed. Will (or has) the ticketing equipment at Gunnersbury and Kew changed from APTIS to UTS? |
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