Next week I am staying with friends in North London and want to do a few trips out by train. I'll only be a few minutes walk from Hampstead Heath Overground Station and so have decided to do a few trips out into Essex via Stratford. I'm going to use my Oyster Card to travel from Hampstead Heath to Stratford and then get Day Returns or even Off Peak Returns from Stratford to destinations like Colchester, Southend, Walton on the Naze etc.
A few years ago I once made the mistake of trying to purchase a Day Return to Southend Stations, as I wanted to call at Leigh on Sea on the return journey, from the large main ticket office in the concourse at Stratford. I hadn't realised that this was operated by London Transport and that they didn't sell the full range of National Rail tickets. Only after being sold a more expensive ticket to Southend Central via Barking did I find out that there was a small National Rail ticket office with only 2 windows hidden around a corner outside the main entrance. It was so annoying that the London Transport man, who was not able to sell me the ticket I required, couldn't have told me that there was another ticket office that could sell me the ticket. I won't go on about this as I have discussed it here before.
To save exiting the station and queuing at this small ticket office are there any ticket machines at Stratford that sell a full range of National Rail Day and Off Peak Day returns. If there are, where are they situated?
A few years ago I once made the mistake of trying to purchase a Day Return to Southend Stations, as I wanted to call at Leigh on Sea on the return journey, from the large main ticket office in the concourse at Stratford. I hadn't realised that this was operated by London Transport and that they didn't sell the full range of National Rail tickets. Only after being sold a more expensive ticket to Southend Central via Barking did I find out that there was a small National Rail ticket office with only 2 windows hidden around a corner outside the main entrance. It was so annoying that the London Transport man, who was not able to sell me the ticket I required, couldn't have told me that there was another ticket office that could sell me the ticket. I won't go on about this as I have discussed it here before.
To save exiting the station and queuing at this small ticket office are there any ticket machines at Stratford that sell a full range of National Rail Day and Off Peak Day returns. If there are, where are they situated?