West Drayton (Zone 6) to Shepherd's Bush

[MarlowDonkey]

Presumably you caught a GWR train to Ealing Broadway and the Central Line from there. You missed two opportunities* to tap in before you were caught, so any excuse about not having time at West Drayton is, realistically, not going to be believable.

Is it one of those fare semi-anomalies where the cost from West Drayton (Zone 6) to Shepherd's Bush is the same at off peak hours, at least, as from Ealing Broadway? It would be a useful point to split tickets if coming from west of West Drayton on the local trains and travelling via Ealing to a Zone 2 station, if you didn't have to use the barriers/gateline at West Drayton. It would cost 15 minutes added to the journey at most times of day.

 

[yorkie]

It's arguably not an anomaly but yes the off peak Pay As You Go (PAYG) fare from West Drayton to Shepherd's Bush is the same as Ealing Broadway to Shepherd's bush and you are right it can be good to "split" at that point from a fares point of view, but with a potentially hefty time penalty.

 

[JonathanH]

Is it one of those fare semi-anomalies where the cost from West Drayton (Zone 6) to Shepherd's Bush is the same at off peak hours, at least, as from Ealing Broadway? It would be a useful point to split tickets if coming from west of West Drayton on the local trains and travelling via Ealing to a Zone 2 station, if you didn't have to use the barriers/gateline at West Drayton. It would cost 15 minutes added to the journey at most times of day.

For the time being West Drayton doesn't have barriers and therefore if you stand by the right doors and there are enough people getting on/off you can just about get down and up the stairs to touch the reader in the underpass and get back on the same train.