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Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Mystery Flyer
Date: May 9, 2008 00:51

I travel from Effingham Junction to Richmond twice a week and to London
Terminals twice a week. I use two buses from London Terminals each way
to work.

Ive been buying daily tickets and using oyster payg for buses each time
but often come perilously close to missing the train.

Richmond and London are different destination zones I know - but is
there some weekly ticket I could buy that provided cover for both plus
buses? I wouldnt mind it being a few quid more. I just want to avoid the
daily queue for tickets.

mf
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Re: Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Michael R N Dolbear
Date: May 9, 2008 09:10

Mystery Flyer mysteryflyer.com> wrote
> I travel from Effingham Junction to Richmond twice a week and to
London
> Terminals twice a week. I use two buses from London Terminals each
way
> to work.
>
> Ive been buying daily tickets and using oyster payg for buses each
time
> but often come perilously close to missing the train.
>
> Richmond and London are different destination zones I know - but is
> there some weekly ticket I could buy that provided cover for both
plus
> buses? I wouldnt mind it being a few quid more. I just want to avoid
the daily queue for tickets.

Avoiding the queue has an easy answer, buy the tickets one or two
nights before either at the station where you start your homeward
jouney or when you reach Effingham Junction.
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Re: Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Mystery Flyer
Date: May 9, 2008 10:15

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
> Mystery Flyer mysteryflyer.com> wrote
>
>> I travel from Effingham Junction to Richmond twice a week and to
> London Terminals twice a week. I use two buses from London Terminals each
>> Ive been buying daily tickets and using oyster payg f
>>
>> Richmond and London are different destination zones I know - but is
>> there some weekly ticket I could buy
>
> Avoiding the queue has an easy answer, buy the tickets one or two
> nights before either at the station where you start your homeward
> jouney or when you reach Effingham Junction.
>
> Otherwise, assuming you are travelling before 09:30 and only four times
> a week, I think you can't improve matters without considerable extra
> cost. Price a weekly (or four peak day travelcards) from Effingham
> Junction to zones 1-6 (which would include your buses of course).
>
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Re: Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Paul Corfield
Date: May 9, 2008 10:24

On Fri, 09 May 2008 08:51:18 +0100, Mystery Flyer
mysteryflyer.com> wrote:
>I travel from Effingham Junction to Richmond twice a week and to London
>Terminals twice a week. I use two buses from London Terminals each way
>to work.
>
>Ive been buying daily tickets and using oyster payg for buses each time
>but often come perilously close to missing the train.
>
>Richmond and London are different destination zones I know - but is
>there some weekly ticket I could buy that provided cover for both plus
>buses? I wouldnt mind it being a few quid more. I just want to avoid the
> daily queue for tickets.

If you know the days you'll be travelling then simply buy the day
tickets in advance.
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Re: Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Paul Scott
Date: May 9, 2008 10:27

"Mystery Flyer" mysteryflyer.com> wrote in message
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> Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
>> Mystery Flyer mysteryflyer.com> wrote
>>> I travel from Effingham Junction to Richmond twice a week and to
>> London Terminals twice a week. I use two buses from London Terminals each
>
>>> Ive been buying daily tickets and using oyster payg f
>>>
>>> Richmond and London are different destination zones I know - but is
>>> there some weekly ticket I could buy
>>
>> Avoiding the queue has an easy answer, buy the tickets one or two
>> nights before either at the station where you start your homeward
>> jouney or when you reach Effingham Junction.
>>
>> Otherwise, assuming you are travelling before 09:30 and only four times
>> a week, I think you can't improve matters without considerable extra
>> cost. Price a weekly (or four peak day travelcards) from Effingham
>> Junction to zones 1-6 (which would include your buses of course). ...
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Re: Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Mystery Flyer
Date: May 9, 2008 12:41

Paul Scott wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply - I looked into it. Its pretty grim reading and
>> would cost me over double and take longer to tube from Wimbledon rather
>> than SWT from CLJ to RMD so its not worth it...
>>
>
> That's odd - I looked at an Effingham Junction to Surbiton weeekly season
> (£30ish) + and an all zones travelcard season(£40 odd) - [1], it certainly
> wasn't twice what you are paying now (£60odd?), and don't forget an all
> zones travelcard season is usable on SWT from Surbiton - CJ - Richmond, it
> is only PAYG that isn't available.
>
> [1] because I couldn't look up the price of an EJ - 'all zones' 7 day
> travelcard on the net.
>

Thanks both Pauls for looking. Its made me look again.
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Re: Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Michael R N Dolbear
Date: May 9, 2008 15:37

Mystery Flyer mysteryflyer.com> wrote
> Thanks for your reply - I looked into it. Its pretty grim reading and
> would cost me over double and take longer to tube from Wimbledon
rather
> than SWT from CLJ to RMD so its not worth it...

As Paul Scott noted, a Z1-6 is valid on SWT/NR as well as tube, bus and
tram.

Buses from Surbiton to Richmond may also be worth a trial (K3/71/281 to
Kingston, Eden St then 65, about 30-40 minutes).
> Guess I'll do the ticket on the way home thing.
>
> Its a shame you cant do this from the SWT ticket machines at
Effingham
> Junction which is of course closed in the evening - but you can buy
> tickets for tomorrow from the Southern ticket machines at Leatherhead
> but you cant change the originating station..

SWT plan to upgrade their machines. I think they got set back when they
replaced their first pick by the kind that Southern use.
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Re: Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Milkshake
Date: May 10, 2008 02:59

"Mystery Flyer" mysteryflyer.com> wrote in message
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> Paul Scott wrote:
>
>>> Thanks for your reply - I looked into it. Its pretty grim reading and
>>> would cost me over double and take longer to tube from Wimbledon rather
>>> than SWT from CLJ to RMD so its not worth it...
>>>
>>
>> That's odd - I looked at an Effingham Junction to Surbiton weeekly season
>> (
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Re: Should I get a weekly instead of payg plus daily tickets         


Author: Paul Scott
Date: May 10, 2008 03:20

"Milkshake" nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> Have I missed something, or is there a reason that Effingham Junction to
> All zones weekly travelcard at
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