I’m up in London this week on training; unfortunately, I knew nothing of the closure of the Waterloo & City line until my arrival at Waterloo on Monday. Anyway, my usual journey usually consists of Waterloo>Bank on the W&C line, then Bank>Liverpool Street on the Central.
With the disruption though, I’ve been taking the Northern line to Tottenham Court Road, then the Central to Liverpool Street.
This actually worked out better because I am able to change straight from the Northern to the Central line at Tottenham Court Road without going through the barriers, so my journey from start to finish is possible on a single zone 1 ticket.
Whereas changing at Bank, I always had to go through the barriers and back in again to get on the Central line; making it two distinct zone 1 journies at twice the overall cost.
So my question is this; for how many stations where lines intersect is this sort of thing true and is there any way to tell which they are from the standard tube map?
Are you sure? I thought it was never necessary to go out and in the turnstiles when changing lines within a station. In more than three years living in London I can’t recall anywhere this was necessary. I never had to do the W & C to Central change at Bank though.
This diagram suggests you don’t have to pass through the ticket hall to do the W & C to Central change at Bank
There are a number of stations where you do have to exit barriers from some lines and enter again for another line. Changing to the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines at Kings Cross springs to mind (I don’t know about Bank). However, when this is the case you don’t need to pay for two separate journeys - at KC at least, you can use the ticket to exit and re-enter and the ticket is only retained by the barrier when you exit again.
To the OP - I think you’ve been overpaying your tube fares - maybe you should write to Ken…
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Thanks; I’m sure there wasn’t a way to go straight from the W&C platform to the Central without going through a barrier - the barriers are more or less at the foot of the stairs/escalators as you leave the platform (IIRC).
I can’t remember whether the ticket was actually retained or was just denied on attempting to enter again to get back on the Circle; it was a combined ticket issued by South East trains for my travel up to Waterloo plus one return journey in Zone 1. maybe it’s this factor that made it not work.
I worked around it by simply walking from Bank to Liverpool Street - it’s only about five minutes. now that the W&C is closed, I got myself an Oyster card and this seems to be charging me differently anyway.
