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Fare Evasion and Automatic Ticket Collection on the London Underground, Ronald V. Clarke (Volume 1, 1993). Journal: Crime Prevention Studies (Publisher: Lynne Riener Publishers). ISSN: 1065-7029. http://www.popcenter.org/library/crimeprevention/volume_01/07clarke.pdf

By the end of 1989 gates were in use at all 63 Zone 1 stations, and from 9 December 1991 more were installed at Brixton and Stockwell to gauge the effectiveness of gating "suburban stations serving the more economically disadvantaged parts of the metropolitan area". Both stations experienced regular and blatant fare evasion. A study published in 1993 based on analysis of ticket and excess fare revenue at those stations for one week in January 1992 found that the annualised revenue gain was £327,000 across the two stations, compared to gateline purchase and installation costs of £623,000. Although the report concluded that "to have installed [gates] on the more than 200 other stations at a cost of another £100 million or so is much less likely to have been cost-effective", this was the strategy eventually pursued by LU.

http://www.southernrailway.com/southern/news/news-archive/2009/09/automatic-ticket-gates-for-west-norwood-station/ (and check Southern news archive for more)

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• TRIBUTE: TRIBUTE user guide!
• LENNON: Good concise briefing sheet; Rail Demand Forecasting Using the Passenger Demand Forecasting Handbook (large PDF; mentions LENNON and MOIRA)
• ORCATS: User guide Railforums discussion and examples; Info in The Grauniad; More info in a blog
• RJIS: "ATOC signed a contract to provide the Rail Journey Information System (RJIS) in July 1998" (Key Point 12); More about it
• BemroseBooth and Magnadata Group: Feb 2010 update; another; July 2010 update; Magnadata stuff
• ATOC TSA Schedule 17 (ticket office stuff): Dec 2012 version and May 2013 version
• Evolvi press releases: Move to Reading; GPS fares available from 12/12/2007; More on GPS, ToD etc; More on ToD etc
• ATOC Guide to Settlement
• Network Rail: Current Passenger Demand
• "The report recommends removing staff from all category E stations"
• ToD ticketing going in "the cloud" (loads of other links at the bottom of this article)
• Newsrail Express 319 – are there others available at this URL?

FoI requests

• Revenue staff training
• Protected season ticket fares
• RCI ticket guide
• Regulated flows
• Through ticketing (non-Travelcard)
• Reason for withdrawal of easement
• Avantix Mobile training material
• Excesses
• Passenger oriented display error (eh?)
• NLCs
• Concession agreement

Interesting stuff in Google searches

• "TIS Accreditation" with quotes
• "Nalco ATOC" with quotes
• "Ticketing and Concessionary Travel on Public Transport" with quotes
• "TICKETING AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT" with quotes
• "Rail ticket printer" with quotes

Heathrow

• Rickards story (8/4/1966)
• Rickards story (8/9/1967)
• Rickards story (9/6/1967)
• Reading stats (2010)
• FoI request: Oyster PAYG

Refs

• This would be the citation for the Presidential Address:
  • Davis, Matthew (2013). The Future's Green and Orange: Exploring and Explaining Ticketing in the Privatised Rail Industry. Bishops Stortford: The Transport Ticket Society. ISBN 978-0-903209-75-5. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Newsrail Express 319: <ref name="NREX319-3">{{cite journal|date=16 July 2006|title=Travel to/from London Terminals & London Thameslink and tickets with "Cross-London" validity|journal=Newsrail Express|issue=319|page=p. 3|publisher=[[Association of Train Operating Companies]] (ATOC Ltd)|format=PDF|isbn=9-99-905576-1|accessdate=25 August 2011|url=http://www.atoctravelagents.org/clientfiles/File/NRE/NE_319.pdf}}</ref>
• NMF thing: <ref name="NMF">{{cite web|url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.dft.gov.uk/about/strategy/whitepapers/whitepapercm7176/railwhitepapersupportingdocs/nmfdemands.pdf|title=Network Modelling Framework Demand & Assignment: Background Documentation|date=November 2007|publisher=[[Steer Davies Gleave]] and [[DeltaRail Group|DeltaRail]]|format=PDF|accessdate=24 August 2011}}</ref>
• NRG Data Feed Spec (SP0037): <ref name="NRG-DFS">{{cite web|url=http://www.atoc.org/clientfiles/File/RSPDocuments/sp0037.pdf|title=National Routeing Guide Data Feed Specification (SP0037)|last=Oakden|first=Carol|date=13 September 2005|publisher=[[Fujitsu|Fujitsu Services Ltd]]/[[Association of Train Operating Companies]] (ATOC Ltd)|format=PDF|accessdate=24 August 2011}}</ref>
• Routeing Guide Easements: <ref name="Easements">{{cite web|url=http://www.atoc.org/clientfiles/File/easements.pdf|title=Routeing Guide Easements|year=2011|publisher=[[Association of Train Operating Companies]] (ATOC Ltd)|format=PDF|accessdate=24 August 2011}}</ref>

Group stations

• Stuff/notes hidden in here:

• Refs from Journal...
  • Feb 2003: Brief mention of London group and the Gatwick Airport exception
  • Oct 2004: KXT Ascom EasyTicket oddity
  • Feb 2005 (p71): some promo tickets are issued point-to-point rather than to station groups (e.g. Northern Duo)
  • Apr 2005 (p142): Anomalies re. group stations to London, esp. involving Penge

• Journal 565 (Feb 2011) p63: "Standard priced tickets were only issued to specific London termini. This changed with the fares increase of 26 April 1970 when the destination LONDON (SR) came into use."

• Note to self on Station group (railway): refs needed
  • Second para of lead: cite Pontefract example in September 2011 Journal.
  • Each station group was also allocated its own National Location Code (NLC)—a four-digit code used for accounting and to attribute revenue to locations on the railway network: bound to be a ref in a Journal somewhere. (Could also be used on the NLC article.)
  • The solution, introduced gradually from November 1997 and uploaded to all ticket issuing systems by January 1998: find a ref in a contemporary Journal and in the Fares Manuals.
  • The NLC appeared on PORTIS/SPORTIS tickets...: may be a ref in the manual?
  • but APTIS tickets (and those from later systems) always showed the NLC of the actual station of issue, even where a ticket was issued from a "station group".: check Journals.
  • The London group was changed three times.: Check early 1998 Journals and Fares Manuals.
  • As GAINSBOROUGH is 12 characters in length...: Check Journal indexes for mentions of Gainsborough.

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From old revision (this) of Station group (railway):

"London group" terminology

Whereas most station groups have had two renderings on tickets, the London group has had four - and two further variations have occasionally been seen.

Order	Wording	Seen from	Seen until	Notes
1st	LONDON BR	1986	Early 1989	Was occasionally seen in 1990s; usually short-term errors
2nd	LONDON BRIT RAIL	Early 1989	Early 1998	Was occasionally seen as LONDON BRITRAIL
3rd	LONDON	Early 1998	April 1998	Persisted longer on some self-service machines
4th	LONDON TERMINALS	April 1998	Present

A "Stop Press" note in National Fares Manual 69 (valid from 24 May 1998 to 26 September 1998 inclusive) stated: "Ticket issuing machines have been downloaded with a new description for London which will now be shown as London Terminals. The new description, however, will not appear in Fare Manuals until they are reissued in September." In practice, the LONDON TERMINALS description gradually appeared on tickets over the course of several months from mid-April 1998 (the same time as the GLASGOW CEN/QST change). Very occasionally, LONDON STATIONS was seen instead of the expected "London Terminals" in late 1998, mainly from certain APTIS machines at London Paddington.

The reason for the early change from LONDON BR to LONDON BRIT RAIL was explained in National Fares Manual 42 (valid from 12 May 1989) as follows: "London BR is being replaced by London Brit Rail to avoid continuing customer confusion with London Bridge. The other "BR" stations [i.e. station group names] will be unchanged." (There was also the potential for confusion in the instance of CATFORD BR, as one of the stations in that group is Catford Bridge, but action was taken only in respect of the London group - perhaps because of its greater importance.)

London: a special case

London is a complex group, for various reasons:

• It has historically included many termini and other stations, all the way round the central area
• In practice, travel was, and still is, only permitted to termini that could be reached via reasonable routes from the origin station, without needing to cross central London by London Underground services or the Thameslink cross-London route
• Two lines cross central London from north to South: the West London Line and, more problematically, the Thameslink route; the stations on these lines had to be considered as well when the group was created
• Some stations' fares are set by, or subject to control from, London Underground
• As mentioned already, the terminology of the "group" and the method of rendering it on tickets has changed several times

The following table lists the stations that have been considered part of the London group, with exceptions highlighted:

City Thameslink	Kensington Olympia	Kings Cross Thameslink	London Blackfriars
London Bridge	London Broad Street	London Cannon Street	London Charing Cross
London Euston	London Fenchurch Street	London Holborn Viaduct	London Kings Cross
London Liverpool Street	London Marylebone	London Paddington	London St Pancras
London Victoria	London Waterloo	London Waterloo East	Moorgate
	Old Street	Vauxhall

Exceptions

The status of Farringdon

On the Thameslink route, Farringdon is considered the crossover station; for fare-setting purposes, it is considered a London Underground station, and tickets are always issued to Farringdon specifically. This situation also applies to Barbican, the next station on the peak-only First Capital Connect service to Moorgate. The status of Moorgate itself is more complicated, as referred to below.

Kensington Olympia

On the West London line, the intermediate station, Kensington Olympia, was included within the London group until the issue of National Fares Manual 57 on 29 May 1994, at which point it became a separately priced station (with tickets always issued to or from there specifically). Accordingly, since 1994, tickets to/from the "London group" have not been valid.

(Similarly, West Brompton station on the same line, which reopened in 1999, has never been part of the London group. Tickets to or from West Brompton always show the station name itself.)

Kings Cross Thameslink

Kings Cross Thameslink is north of the River Thames; it is considered to be within the London group only in respect of other stations north of the Thames. Unless the National Fares Manual and the ticket issuing system being used specifies otherwise, tickets between Kings Cross Thameslink and stations south of the Thames have to be issued to/from there specifically (rather than to/from the London group), with the fare being (fare to London group) + (London Underground Zone 1 single or return fare, as appropriate).

London Bridge, London Blackfriars and City Thameslink

The same applies in reverse; these stations are south of the Thames, and journeys to or from stations north of the Thames have to be issued to/from the station itself, at the fare which includes the Zone 1 supplement.

Moorgate

Moorgate is served by two National Rail routes: the peak-only First Capital Connect route as described above, which diverges from the main Thameslink route at Farringdon, and the service on the Northern City Line from Finsbury Park, also operated by First Capital Connect. Tickets issued to/from the "London group" are valid at Moorgate when used on the Northern City Line route, but are not valid on the Thameslink route from Farringdon.

The closed stations

London Broad Street station closed in 1986, months before the APTIS system was introduced. London Holborn Viaduct station closed in 1990, being replaced by City Thameslink nearby. Both of these stations were included in the London group prior to closure.

The "London Thameslink" group

To improve flexibility for people travelling from stations on the northern Thameslink route (West Hampstead Thameslink to Bedford inclusive), a new station group called London Thameslink (rendered on tickets as london thameslnk) was created in 1998. Tickets could be issued from one of the stations on the above route to this destination, and these would be valid on Thameslink services to all of the following stations: Kings Cross Thameslink, Farringdon, Barbican, Moorgate, City Thameslink, London Blackfriars, London Bridge and Elephant & Castle. However, Season Tickets could not be issued from these northern Thameslink stations to "London Thameslink" - they have always had to be issued to a specific station.