How can I find out the default route assumed by TfL's Single Fare Finder?

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One way of checking what the "default" route is is to use the journey planner to plan a journey on a different day, preferably mid-week when there is less likely to be engineering work.

In this case, the "default" route is changing at Clapham Junction to the direct Southern service to Watford Junction via Shepherd's Bush (and so avoiding Zone 1). Today (28/10), however, that line is closed between Shepherd's Bush and Willesden Junction, so it isn't listed as a possibility.

As you'd pass through a ticket barrier at either (or both) Waterloo or Euston today, the system would recognise you'd gone through Zone 1 and so would charge you accordingly. If you were to travel via Richmond and Willesden Junction instead, you'd need to touch on the pink Oyster reader at Richmond to signal to the system you'd travelled that way, avoiding Zone 1 (there is a list of pink readers at https://tfl.gov.uk/fares-and-payments/oyster/using-oyster/pink-card-readers).

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The “default” route is simply the fare you would pay if you touch in at the from station, and touch out at the to station without touching an intermediate pink reader. The alternative routes listed will all require leaving and reentering the network (touching out and in again) or using an intermediate pink reader. So there isn’t a single default “route” per se since you can take any route within the network between the two stations.

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