Hi, to explain a bit about myself, I currently work in Camden area (Hampstead more specifically) and I’m planning to do my MSc in Birkbeck soon.
I have fallen in love with the area around City Thameslink Station all the way to Bank Station (sorry idk what’s that area called) I was wondering, do you have any experience living in this area?
Is the rent expensive compared to other boroughs like Camden?
Of course I know it varies a lot within each borough so imagine an average studio in an average neighborhood and compare based on that please.
How is the noise? Cause I have only visited this area during weekend and it’s fairly quiet.
Thank youuuuuuuuu!!!
My job is really close to city thameslink so it would probably be easier to live somewhere further out than central and get a train everyday (10-30min train ride and a nicer flat opposed to my 30-min tube commute right now from a shitty studio).
I tried researching this by just looking at the map and found a few good choices (West Hampstead, Elephant & Castle) but would love some suggestions on affordable places that have good connections to the city thameslink station (I’d say max 30min).
Really looking forward to getting out of central london and have a bit more space (: thanks for the help!
Does anyone know if the Cambridge - Brighton Thameslink service has toilets? Travelling with friends later and have IBS. Thanks!
So I live in St Albans and will need to start commuting to London again this January. Can someone explain to me how season ticket pricing makes any kind of sense and why you can’t use a railcard when buying them?
I’m in my early 20s, so I have 18-25 railcard, and then can get 26-30 railcard, so it’s a lot of railcard years, and also means a lot of people can get them. The Thameslink website says that there are no railcard discounts for season tickets because railcards don’t work at all times. However, checking ticket prices during peak hours (7:30 am train out, 17:30 train back), both railcards reduce the price to £14.85 from £22.50.
A yearly 5/7 days season ticket for the same journey costs around £3.8k, or more accurately, £14.65 per day, so the difference is almost negligible.
This means that when taking into account holiday, sick days, not going into the office for other reasons, if you’re under 30, you’re better off buying a ticket every day which seems wrong.
Bonus point question:
Last time I checked, you can’t get railcard discounts on the Smartcard (Thameslink version of Oyster) either, this seems like an easy enough thing to implement to avoid people queuing at the ticket machines.
Edit: I think railcard on the smart card is possible now
