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Odd, there is no date.

scrumpy | 07.08.24 - 7:15 a.m. | #

The leaflet has two sides.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 07.08.24 - 7:40 a.m. | #

Well spotted, as always.

The sentence about “order of stops may change depending on direction of travel” struck me as odd. That seems to be stating the obvious: Westferry comes before Canary Wharf when travelling towards Canning Town, and after Canary Wharf when travelling towards Tower Gateway. Or are they trying to say something different?

What would be useful is to say which stop is for which direction. For example, at Canary Wharf presumably Stop F is for one direction and Stop L the other. But which is which?
Did these buses really use two stops at Canning Town as stated?

Notts Observer | 07.08.24 - 8:09 a.m. | #

Maybe if you have an Oyster card with no credit that's not counted as a 'valid ticket'

MKIan | 07.08.24 - 9:22 a.m. | #

Up until the mid-2000s TfL deployed teams of uniformed dedicated ‘Customer Service Assistants’ (whether in-house or contractors?) to supposedly check tickets of those boarding rail replacement buses. This was all stopped to cut costs.

Kim | 07.08.24 - 11:02 a.m. | #

The Metropolitan line was similarly messed up yesterday and this time tickets were accepted on Chiltern which runs in parallel.

This always is the case. In fact it is the case even if you are only allowed to travel on TfL services for free (e.g.staff, police officers).

I would guess that even 60+ and Freedom Pass users can use Chiltern from 9.00 a.m. Mondays to Fridays - consistent with TfL policy.

Pedantic of Purley | 07.08.24 - 11:42 a.m. | #

A few years ago I travelled on a DLR replacement bus on which you were required to tap-in on the bus oyster device. Having learned from your article the other day (about buses being rushed in to replace Sullivan) that bus reader devices need to be re-programmed for a new route, it was interesting that someone went to the trouble of programming the buses for that replacement service.

IslandDweller | 07.08.24 - 4:28 p.m. | #

Sometimes the Greater Anglia rail replacement bus goes to a different station (e.g. Southend Victoria to Newbury Park, instead of Liverpool Street).

In this case, where and how do I buy a ticket?

o4b | 07.08.24 - 5:10 p.m. | #

A while ago when the trams were messed up, they ran bus replacement services where you didn't need to touch in. This leaflet makes me wonder whether that may no longer be the case - why go through the process of annoying customers more than they are already?
Will there be ticket inspectors at the ready to catch anyone out, if they can't program the oyster device?

All Over 2a | Homepage | 07.08.24 - 5:38 p.m. | #

Checking tickets on rail replacement buses. I think it has always been the case that this /might/ happen. Attempting to estimate the probability of this from personal experience is pretty certainly subject to the anecdata fallacy. There may be a long term trend, up or down, but it would require detailed and expensive research to discover any such trend.

Malcolm of Kent | 07.08.24 - 6:35 p.m. | #

Five or six years ago I was rather stunned to be asked by the driver for my ticket on boarding a replacement bus for Manchester's Metrolink. I had just waltzed on like you do with any replacement bus service.

Now I had a ticket but I did wonder after, how would he even know what a valid tram ticket was? Now Metrolink has contactless readers on the platform again you've got nothing to show. Suspect what they really need are "conductors" on every bus!

Andrew Bowden | Homepage | 07.08.24 - 7:12 p.m. | #

A lot of fast trains no longer stop at Slough since the Eliz Line went full service.

Harvey | 07.08.24 - 11:13 p.m. | #

I can use my freedom pass on the Elizabeth line but not on the GWR into Paddington. If the Lizzie line is disrupted can I then use the GWR?

Chris Barker | 08.08.24 - 11:02 a.m. | #

On my local TfL-run train route, it has always been a stated requirement to have a valid ticket before boarding a replacement bus, although this is almost never enforced in practice. On a couple of occasions, I asked a member of station staff what I was supposed to do, and the answer was to touch-in at the station gateline at the beginning of my journey (the ticket barriers at the station at the other end of the bus route were left open, so that you can continue your journey by train as part of the same journey, without a further touch-in/touch-out at the interchange). That said, on another occasion, the gateline was not accepting touch-ins/touch-outs, and the bus Oyster reader was not active either... on that occasion, the staff member said something about "we assume your journey is already paid" or some vague waffle that I interpreted as "in theory, we are supposed to charge you, but we have not implemented a way to collect the charge via Oyster on this occasion, so just board the bus and do not worry about it".

anon | 08.08.24 - 1:59 p.m. | #











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