GREATER LONDON AREA Route Developments
COUNTRY AREAS Route Developments
PUBLICITY, FARES & TICKETING
PUBLICITY NEWS
Section editor: John Bull, ** Walton Street, St Albans, AL1 1xx; e-mail to ******@hotmail.co.uk
The two most significant TfL publicity items of December were the slimline booklets for Christmas and New Year’s Eve. As previewed last month, the Christmas booklet ‘The festive season, Travel information’ had a stylish cover, depicting two people walking in the snow with their elongated scarves weaving a colourful pattern. Compared with previous years, the biggest difference was the blue corner flash on the front cover ‘Victoria line not stopping at Victoria station 22 December – 6 January’. Inside, four of the forty pages were a glorified closure leaflet for the Victoria line, with a plan of the Victoria Bus Station, a map of the area headed ‘Where to catch your bus’ and a modified segment of the Tube diagram. The latter employed a chequered blue line to show the replacement bus service from Pimlico to Victoria, where only the District and Circle lines were shown as stopping. Both the Victoria and Metropolitan lines were closed on 26 December. Was this possibly the first time in their 40-plus year history that no A class Metropolitan line stock were scheduled for service during an operational day? Underground aside, the booklet followed much the same pattern as in recent years, with the addition this year of a new entry for Overground.
‘Enjoy New Year’s Eve Travel information’ had a striking cover illustration showing a giant set of numbers for 2008, with the new number 8 being hoisted into position, while two people carry away the redundant number 7. In the background was a firework display against the London skyline. The back cover had a silver roundel, suspended in the form of a ballroom glitter ball, as the central feature of an ad for NatWest, who again sponsored free travel on the Tube, buses, DLR and Tramlink from 2345 until 0430. Inside, the map showing where to view the fireworks on New Year’s Night was improved this year, with the useful addition of the location of various toilets in the viewing areas. The map showing the road closures and bus route diversions was slightly modified this year, with the Aldwych terminus being abandoned and most of the displaced routes retreating to the comparative calm of Holborn Station. The fold out map with the New Year’s Night free travel rail network was similar to last year’s but was updated to show the East London line replacement bus services and the closure of Liverpool Street station, with the National Rail services starting from Stratford or Seven Sisters.
Several more spider maps have been published by TfL. The first four from London Buses are: Your guide to bus services from Aldgate and Fenchurch Street; …from Canada Water and Surrey Quays; …from Canning Town; …from Edmonton Green. These are what have hitherto been described as bus station spider maps, but in view of the Aldgate map, perhaps ought now to be known as area spider maps. They have the same mid-blue covers as before, with a drawing of four buses meeting at a cross-roads, over which a giant information symbol (lower case letter I) has been superimposed. They are dated November, apart from Canada Water, which is December and has been updated to include the ELC and ELP. As usual they each open to reveal an area spider map with a bus stop plan at its centre. There is also a route finder with a list of first and last bus times for each route and a destination list with a key to bus routes. The bus stop plan for the first title extends from Aldgate East Station to Fenchurch Street Station, and only one of the sixteen stops on the map is located within the bus station at Aldgate.
The second batch consists of six new hospital spider maps, with their usual blue multi-modal roundels, and these are titled: Travelling to and from…… Chase Farm Hospital; Ealing Hospital; Great Ormond Street Hospital; Hammersmith and Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospitals; King's College Hospital; St Mary's Hospital. These are each dated November 2007 and all have the modified dark blue cover as reported for Barnet Hospital in TLB520. The spider maps inside these slimlines have been modified to include trains and Tubes where appropriate and are headed to reflect this, for example: Buses, Tubes and trains from St Mary’s Hospital. This map not only includes all the bus routes serving Praed Street and Eastbourne Terrace, but also shows the National Rail line out of Paddington west as far as Ealing Broadway, as well as the entire Circle Line, the District as far as Wimbledon, the H&C from Hammersmith to Stepney Green and the Bakerloo from Wembley Central southwards.
Some of these stations might not be thought as obvious transport routes to these hospitals, such as Hanwell Station on the Ealing map or East Acton station for Hammersmith Hospital, but these maps are obviously aimed not only at local patients but also at potential visitors who may travel from well outside the hospital’s catchment area.
There is another slimline consultative leaflet from London Buses with the new style white cover with two red speech bubbles. These are labelled ‘Have your say’ ‘On proposed changes to bus routes in Shepherd's Bush and White City, to serve the new Westfield London development’. The map inside employs several colours (green, blue, pink and orange) to show the various proposed route alterations, which will serve a new White City Bus Station and a new Southern Interchange near Shepherd’s Bush Central line and Overground stations. Routes 31, 49, 207, 237, 260, 607 and C1 would go along a new bus priority link road around the new development. Comments are requested by the deadline of 25 January.
‘Your guide to fares and tickets 2 January 2008 until further notice’ is the familiar slimline entrant at the start of each year, but with a new cover design. The cover drawing of a multi-level bridge illustrates the main four travel modes, with the addition of an orange and white Overground train. As a consequence of the arrival of Overground and the additional fare zones, the page count rises to thirty-six from only twenty in the previous 30 September 2007 issue. However, it is understood there will no longer be a separate fares leaflet for stations north of Moor Park. The main disappointment of the fares booklet is that it lacks a map, when there is a crying need for one with all the new lines and revised fares zones. Two other new fares slimlines are ‘Getting the most out of your Oyster card’ and ‘Why should I switch to Oyster?’, both dated January.
Following hard on the heels of the November pocket-size Tube map, there is a new edition dated January 2008. This has a new multi-colour cover design called ‘Underground Abstract’ by Cornelia Parker, and was commissioned by Art on the Underground (formerly known as Platform for Art). The map inside reflects the recent closure of the East London Line and changes to various stations and Travelcard Zones. The new Zones 7, 8 and 9 have been added, replacing A, B, C and D, while a small panel in tiny white out of orange lettering reads: Watford Junction is outside Transport for London zonal area. Special fares apply. There is a larger orange panel explaining the East London Line closure, where the replacement bus services are shown as a chequered orange line, while the future extensions to Highbury & Islington, Crystal Palace and West Croydon are shown by means of pecked orange twin lines. Langdon Park (DLR) and Shepherd’s Bush (OG) stations are now shown as open. Unfortunately, not only is the Overground station not yet open, although seemingly finished some months ago, the Central line station at Shepherd’s Bush is to close for rebuilding from 2nd February until October 2008. The interchange shown on the map will thus be unachievable for most of this year!
Terminal 5 is marked as ‘opens Spring 2008’ and Wood Lane (H&C) as ‘opens late 2008’. All three of the airport terminal stations have lost their Heathrow prefix. Alongside, a separate blue box has been added, labelled Heathrow Airport, complete with aircraft symbol. Tower Gateway is marked as ‘Closed summer 2008 to spring 2009’. Canary Wharf is no longer shown as a direct interchange between the Jubilee and DLR. Instead the distances are shown between the Jubilee line station and the adjacent DLR stations at Canary Wharf and Heron Quays. A similar modification has been made at West Hampstead. Indeed, Hampstead Heath (OG) moves from zone 3 to zone 2, Acton Central (OG) from 2 to 3, while Willesden Junction becomes zones 2/3, previously only zone 3, although the index to stations overleaf has yet to reflect these changes. The heading on the Oyster ad on the back panel has been changed from the cheapest to the easiest way to get around London.
Although no new CYJs have been reported from London Underground, one item appeared in December with the heading ‘Continuing your journey from Victoria’, below which was a bus stop plan showing where the recent replacement buses to Pimlico departed from Hudson’s Place. Overleaf this A5 handbill carried the heading: Victoria line trains will not stop at Victoria station between 22 December and 6 January 2008. The text below this explained the replacement bus services. New local area maps have finally appeared in the leaflet slots at Chorleywood and Croxley stations. These are both dated 2006, with a half width front flap, and they complete the set for out-county stations on the Metropolitan line. There is a new slimline Tube guide for station from Rickmansworth northwards, dated from 23 December. As usual, this gives full timetables for both Underground and Chiltern Railways services from these stations. It is confirmed that ‘Under new management’ slimline slips were also issued for Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury stations. These are identical to those for the Bakerloo line stations except that District line is substituted for Bakerloo line in the text.
Another station taken over by London Underground was the King’s Cross Thameslink station, now vacated by First Capital Connect in favour of a new sub-surface station beneath the rather remote East Midlands platforms of St Pancras International. A different slimline slip was issued in this case, consisting entirely of text apart from the Underground roundel. Headed ‘New opening times for the Pentonville Road entrance’ the strapline read: ‘From Monday 10 December Mondays to Fridays 0700 – 2000, London Underground access only’.
‘Making your Tube more accessible, Finsbury Park, Step-Free Access and Station Upgrade’ is the self-explanatory title on a slimline with a mainly white cover, but with the Underground roundel in white out a blue border at the bottom. The rest of the cover consists of an extract of the Tube map. Dated December, this leaflet describes with the aid of pictures and a map the proposed improvements, including passenger lifts to each pair of platforms served by the Piccadilly and Victoria lines.
Langdon Park station opened on 10 December as planned, and to mark the opening of the new station the DLR produced an introductory A5 leaflet ‘Welcome to the DLR’ which included a picture of the station and a street map of the local area. The DLR issued a revised version of their slimline ‘A guide to using Docklands Light Railway’ dated as valid from 8 December 2007. This incorporated some minor revisions to first and last train times, and a network diagram with Langdon Park added, but was otherwise little altered.
Oxford Street and Regent Street were closed to traffic for the second year running on the first Saturday of December, coinciding with the 'Shop West End' event. The only publicity item seen for the 2007 event was a narrow slimline card (80x210mm) labelled ‘London’s biggest traffic-free Christmas shopping day Saturday 1 December’ This carried branding for several supporting organisations including TfL. Russian Winter Festival London 2008 is the heading on a blue and white slimline promoting this event in Trafalgar Square on Sunday 13 January. This item is smothered in logos for various sponsors, including TfL. Unfortunately none of them thought to check the bus details on the back cover which, just like last year’s leaflet, continue to overlook the presence of the 29 and 87, while attempting to perpetuate the life of the old 77A route.
There is a second edition of the twenty-five page slimline volume about Victoria Coach Station published by the 'Coaches' people at TfL. Like the first issue about two years ago (TLB502), this is again labelled 'Information for customers' and includes plans of the arrivals and departures buildings, a CYJ-style street map of the area and a small Tube map. Undated, the Tube map gives the only firm clue to the date, which is clearly late 2007, with Overground labelled as ‘Opens 11 November’ and the East London Line as ‘closes from 22 December.’ There is also a Polish language version of this booklet.
Proposals for the Greenwich Waterfront Transit were on display in Woolwich on 1 December when a descriptive brochure (210x210mm) was available. This describes the route in detail, which envisages a modern transit service between North Greenwich, Thamesmead and Abbey Wood, thirty per cent of which would be on purpose built bus lanes, known as busways. In Woolwich town centre it would follow a busway past Woolwich Arsenal Station and through the former Royal Arsenal site. Improving Highbury Corner is the subject of a consultative brochure (210x260mm) from TfL and Islington Council setting out three different options for improving the traffic intersection outside Highbury & Islington station. Responses are required by 14 January.
Legible London is the title of an A4 brochure from TfL with the strapline: Yellow Book, A prototype wayfinding system for London. Legible London is designed to provide better information for people who want to explore the capital on foot. A trial currently in the Bond Street area is the prototype for a future London-wide pedestrian information system, and consists of nineteen on-street signs displaying all the information pedestrians could require when walking in the area.
There is an Autumn, Winter 07/08 edition of the Guide to River Thames Boat Services, published by TfL’s London River Services. The new timetables reveal an improvement in the commuter services from Embankment to Greenwich, which have been extended to the QEII pier at North Greenwich, close to the Millennium Dome, which reopened last summer as the O2. These boats now daily operate a regular 15-minute interval service all day, reducing to 30 minutes from 2100 to midnight, with late boats until 0100 on Friday and Saturday nights. This service is extended to the Woolwich Arsenal pier in the morning rush hour and in the evenings. Hitherto, the service was roughly every 40 minutes and finished around 2000, or at 1800 at weekends.
The Original London Sightseeing Tour (TOLST) carried a special notice on its website for their Christmas Day tour, with a drawing of Father Christmas riding on one of the Volvo Ayats open-top double-deckers, and with his reindeer enjoying the sights from the top deck. This notice was likely to have been issued as a special handbill on the day.
We reported in TLB516 that the Final Printed Edition of the National Rail Timetable was dated Sunday 20 May to Saturday 8 December 2007. While that statement may be true as far as a publication from Network Rail is concerned, two new printed versions of the National Rail timetable have since appeared to replace it. The first, as advertised in TLB520, is published by Middleton Press at £14.95 post free, although copies are also available in bookshops, such as that in the LT Museum. This book is titled Rail Times and has a blue cover. The first issue is December 2007, which includes amendments to 12 January 2008, which are added as footnotes on the relevant page, rather than in an easily overlooked separate section. Rail Times is to be published monthly, although the publishers are happy to take standing orders for the summer and winter revisions. The contents are identical to the previous National Rail timetable, and retain its A5 format, but by reducing the print size by half and placing two pages side by side on each page the number of pages is halved to 1392. This publication also replaces the OAG (or originally ABC) Rail Guide, of which the final issue was for October 2007.
The second replacement timetable is the ‘UK rail timetable winter edition: excluding Northern Ireland 9th Dec 2007 - 17th May 2008’ and is priced at £15. It is published by TSO (the new name of The Stationery Office) and can be ordered through their website: www.tsoshop.co.uk. A copy of this has not been seen but with 2,736 pages, also A5, it is presumably the same pages as in the Rail Times, but printed at the full size. Alternatively, one can go to the National Rail website and print off individual timetables direct. There is no charge for this, other than the cost of the paper and printer cartridge. There are also various electronic means of accessing timetable information onto mobile phones, PDAs and laptops.
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Moving outside London, Arriva the Shires has an undated A5 leaflet ‘Harlow …it’s a Breeze’ . This contains a coloured line route map of the town, and describes improvements made to blue route 4 this autumn (2007). There is also a small (70x150mm) folder dated Autumn 2007 for blue route 4. This has a dark blue cover and carries both Arriva and Essex CC branding. Inside is a full timetable and a route diagram. A new glossy A5 is around dated ‘Winter 2007’ for Green Line 797. This is simply a re-issue, though, as the timetables inside remain dated July 2005. Two issues from 6 January 2008 cover the recent enhanced 510 service between Harlow and Stansted, which in fact was the only local bus service in the are that worked on Christmas Day. One is a normal style Arriva issue but with an image of an aircraft taking off at sunset on the front cover. The other is a BAA issue with covers in pastel shades of pale green and blue, a picture of a 510 Volvo, plus sample fares and information about BAA’s Airport Travelcard facility for airport staff discounted travel.
Last month we reported that for Christmas and New Year 2007/2008, the company issued a suite of seven slimline leaflets with crimson covers, giving the amended services operated by Arriva in each town. These were for Aylesbury, Harlow and Ware area including Waltham Cross, Hemel Hempstead, High Wycombe, Luton and Dunstable, Stevenage and Watford. There were also four slimlines with green covers for Green Line routes 724, 757, 758 and 797. In addition, a slimline in Arriva two-tone blue was issued jointly with Watford and Three Rivers councils. Titled Boxing Day bus services, this gave timetables for the free bus services on routes W1/W2, W4 and 8A which operated on that day between 1200 and 2100. There was a cross reference on the cover to the Sunday services operating on routes 142 and 258, but curiously no mention of the 724 which also ran on Boxing Day.
Sister company Arriva Southern Counties has a set of A7 format promotional folders, the latest examples of Arriva's direct-mail ‘Going your way’ marketing campaign. titled ‘Avoid the nightmare before Christmas’ depicting an Arriva blue DLA in the snow, passing an array of car park full signs. Those within our area are: Woking, Guildford, Camberley & Brooklands (routes 28, 34, 35, 91, 436); Guildford (3, 17, 18, 26, 27, 37, 36, 37); The Surrey Hills, Guildford, Dorking & Cranleigh (21, 24, 25, 32, 42, 44, 53, 63, 93); Gravesend, Bluewater & Dartford (480, 490 and Fastrack B); Gravesend (495, 498, 499). Each one contains a summary of frequencies and first and last buses on each route, a route map and money off vouchers for bus tickets, which expire on 26/1/08. A recipe for Christmas mince pies is also included where space allows.
A standard blue A5 for 373 (Upminster to Grays) is dated 11 November, which includes the Sunday service operated by Ensignbus as route 73. In addition to the A5 route leaflets for the Bluewater area reported last month, there is also a slimline service change leaflet: New bus times for Kent Thameside from 18th November. There is a revised ‘Bus to school with Arriva’ for the Wilmington area from 18 November. A red and blue A5 flyer for shopping excursions to Bluewater & Lakeside from the Sheppey and Sittingbourne areas operates on certain Saturdays in 2008, from 2nd February. Three A5 leaflets were issued for Christmas & New Year Bus Times from 24 December to 2 January. These were for Surrey & West Sussex, for Kent & Sussex (including the 781/784 commuter coaches to London, and the 700/701 to Bluewater); and for Kent Thameside. Window bills sufficed to announce services over the holiday period in the Thurrock area.
Ensignbus has a new issue of its glossy slimline leaflet dated 10th November 2007. In addition to a map of the Ensignbus route network, this provides full timetables of all their six routes, which includes new route 33. There was also a slimline slip for the X80 Vintage Bus Specials on 1st and 8th December only. As well as timetables, this offered pictures of various RTs, an RMA and RLH. New this year was the prospect of appearances by Father Christmas, who rode on various journeys during the day, along with guest visits by other vintage buses.
First in Berkshire has a new slimline timetable book dated 1 December 2007 for the Bracknell area. Compared with the previous issue dated 19 May, the ‘and Wokingham’ suffix has been dropped from the title, reflecting the withdrawal by First of routes 193 and 202 in the Wokingham area. On the cover, the Bus Times heading has now been changed to Bus Information but, that apart, the format is much the same. Evening and Sunday services on routes 153, 171, 172 and 194, now operated under contract by Courtney Coaches, are included in the timetables. There is also a new RailAir.com Reading – Heathrow slimline booklet dated January 2008, replacing the previous July 2007 issue. The latest booklet has a yellow cover label: Serving Terminal 5 commencing 22 March 2008. The timetable inside is unaltered, but a note advises that this changes after 21 March.
Little Jim’s of Berkhamsted has issued another leaflet. Folded to A5 on yellow paper this is headed Local-Link bus 502. Inside is a full timetable for the 502 from 1 December.
Metrobus of Crawley issued two yellow A5 handbills for their services over the Christmas period. One gave the Christmas Day service on route 10, while overleaf was the Boxing Day service on the 200, together with a summary of their other services from 24 December to 1st January. The second handbill gave the Boxing Day services for route 420 on one side, and for the 435 overleaf. Southdown PSV has a pale blue A5 leaflet titled Bus Times For Services 324, 410, 606, 609, 649, 657, 658. Full timetables are provided for each route. This item has no cover date but there is a tiny 25/10/2007 date on the back. Was there an earlier issue back in June, when they lost the 409 and 411 to Metrobus?
Stagecoach has a new issue from 9 December of its red and white slimline for the Virgin Trains express coach VT99 service from Milton Keynes to Luton, showing the revised hourly timetable. Compared to the 15 January 2007 issue, this leaflet has also gained an FWT route map.
TrustLine Bus Services of Harlow have a single A4 sheet dated 26 November for their C2/C3 routes from Harlow to Waltham Cross. This effectively updates the glossy A5 timetable book reported last month. Galleon Travel, the coaching arm of Trustline, has issued an A5 flyer for a Lakeside Bus Service (900), in other words a coach excursion from the Hatfield, Hertford and Cheshunt areas to Lakeside, each Wednesday and Saturday from 3 November to 26 January 2008.
Uno of Hatfield issued a slimline folder Christmas & New Year bus times 2007/2008. This was printed in the company’s customary purple, with a pink bell for decoration.
Moving into the local authority sector, Buckinghamshire recently issued a set of seven stapled A4 sheets headed: Changes to Aylesbury Routes 2 and 9 plus Wendover Routes 54 from November 12th. This included a photocopy on the front page of an extract from the latest Bucks bus map, showing Aylesbury local bus routes from 23 September. On the other pages were full timetables for the three amended routes, including journeys on parallel routes 61A and 161 to Wendover and Halton Camp.
Next we travel north to Cambridgeshire, where items produced by the county council do not often feature in TLB. However, two routes entering Hertfordshire, the 31 to Barley and 127 to Royston are shown in leaflets dated from 8 April 2007. Each contains a full timetable and a route diagram, which is annotated with SMS codes for passengers to text a special number to receive a message in return with the times of the next three buses at that stop.
Essex has a new edition of its countywide Bus and Train Maps, dated Winter/Spring 2007/08. The FWT bus map inside is dated November. In addition to the glossy A5 leaflet from Imperial Buses for ‘your new improved H1’ from 17th November, there is another glossy A5 from Essex CC ‘Bus Times H1/541’ from the same date. As might be expected, this includes the broadly parallel journeys on Arriva/ECC route 541. Essex also issued an A5 folder ‘Bus Times Christmas & New year 2007’. ‘Add unlimited bus travel around Harlow to your train ticket’ is the title of a PlusBus slimline with ECC and PlusBus branding. Dated August, this slimline includes a PlusBus zone map, which extends across the urban area of Harlow and appears to include all the local operators except SM Travel.
Hertfordshire has produced a non-standard A5 booklet titled ‘Service Changes Bishop's Stortford, Buntingford & Royston’ which is dated January 2008. This has a blue cover just like the Travel guide for area 7 which it supplements, except that with only 20 pages it is wire bound rather than perfect bound. Inside are full timetables for each of the amended services in north east Herts, together with a revised area map and town map for Royston. There is a new Network Map for the county dated Winter 2007/2008 which is correct to January 2008. This has the usual blue slimline cover for the winter season. There is also the perennial slimline ‘Service Variations Christmas & New Year Bus and Train Services 2007/2008’ with a red and green cover. Intachange issue 49 is dated December and has a cover proclaiming ‘It’s Panto Time!!’ Inside there are details of various pantomimes across the county as well as the latest service changes.
A slimline leaflet from Kent not previously seen is for routes 416/417 Meopham/ Cliffe & Gravesend including bus 311 from Lower Higham, which is dated 19 February 2007. It replaces a similar item dated 23 May 2005.
Luton Borough Council issued a glossy slimline ‘Travel services over Christmas 2007 and New Year’, which carried the branding of the local bus operators to add a little colour to the wintry scene on the cover. The back cover listed the new locations for town centre bus stops after the bus station closes on 7 January.
Oxfordshire has issued a second edition of its 'Public Transport guide' county map in 2007, this time in December. This is little changed from the previous issue dated June apart from some route changes around the Didcot, Wantage, Abingdon and Faringdon areas. These follow a retendering exercise, which resulted in many cut-backs.
Sussex is another area with fairly rare entries in this section of TLB. However, the good news is that East Sussexcounty council has produced a Passenger Transport Map dated November 2007, the first such map for the county since August 1998. Inside the slimline cover is an excellent FWT geographical bus and train map extending from East Grinstead and Tunbridge Wells down to the Sussex coast at Brighton and east to Camber. There are enlarged maps of the twelve main towns, a rail diagram and a frequency table for the main bus routes. West Sussex does not appear to have produced any new printed publicity this year, but the county council website does offer several maps which can be downloaded in pdf format. There is a countywide bus map, Getting Around West Sussex by Public Transport, Map & Guide, dated Spring 2007. This is a Pindar bus and train map with a frequency guide overleaf. The website also offers Getting Around by Public Transport guides for several of the main towns including East Grinstead and Horsham, both dated Spring 2007. These guides include a town bus map and a bus and train frequency guide. Printed versions of these three items were last reported for Summer 2005, or Winter 2005/6 for East Grinstead.
Fares and Ticketing (info via Managing Editor or lotsed@tesco.net)
Arriva G&WS increased most fares, including the day/week/four-week tickets, in the Surrey area from 6th January. The coach fares on the Maidstone- London services operated by the New Enterprise subsidiary also increased from 7th January although the 3-monthly and 6-monthly seasons did not increase.
An extension to the PlusBus ticket facility occurred from 2nd January when Aylesbury was added. Most PlusBus fares had small increases from the same date, in line with general rail fares.
In Kent, the scheme allowing some schoolchildren free travel in some areas (TLB516 p40) is being extended through 2008. Additional areas in the county are to be included in the scheme and there is an expectation that the whole county may be covered in 2009.
As mentioned in TLB519 (p.31) the new fare structure in London applying from 2nd January 2008 means no change to bus, DLR, Underground and Tramlink fares. Travelcards, which include National rail travel, will be increased by about 3-4%. For Travelcards there are new zones 7, 8 and 9 which replace the current zones A/B, C and D at the outer ends of the Metropolitan Line. The Zones 1-6 annual Travelcard is now £1784.00 but the dearest ticket is a Zone 1-9 priced at £2600.00 per year.
Free travel was again allowed in London over the New Year’s Eve period between 23.45 and 04.30 on the Underground, buses, DLR and Tramlink (but not London Overground). It was sponsored by NatWest Bank. The Congestion Charge was again suspended between 25th December 2007 and 1st January 2008 inclusive.
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