A traveller a two-zone station can, in effect, 'save' a zone and perhaps therefore pay a cheaper fare. For example, travelling to West Ham from any zone 2 station is a single zone journey, but so is travelling there from any zone 3 station.
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London is divided into 1–9 zones*, but most of it fits into zones 1–6. Central London is zone 1, zone 2 is the ring around zone 1, zone 3 is the ring around 2 and so on.
The theory is that you use Z2 to get in the training without overtaxing yourself and therefore give your body the proper recovery it needs to make your hard days hard. Z3 used to be referred to as “junk miles” because they were not hard enough to stimulate growth/adaptation, but not easy enough to facilitate recovery.
Six fare London zones are given to each station on the London Underground zones, London Overground, National Rail, TfL Rail, and Docklands Light Railway. The central core region is covered by fare zone 1, while fare zones 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are basically concentric circles around Zone 1.
Whereas much of the foundation of North London is clay – almost perfect for tube tunnel building – south London largely sits on “Lambeth and Thanet Sand”, a flimsier substance that was more challenging to tunnel through before the days of leviathan boring machines like the one responsible for Crossrail.
Stratford and several other stations have been moved from Zone 3 to the new Zone 2/3. What this means is that the Zone will change depending on direction of travel. Travelling between these stations and central London will actually be cheaper.
Greenwich and Cutty Sark stations are in both zones 2 and 3. A travelcard for zones 1 and 2 will take you from central London to Greenwich by any rail or bus route. to explain a bit - there are a few places that are in more than one zone.
Services. The station is located in Zone 1, and is served by the Northern line as part of the extension from Kennington to serve the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.
But Zone 2 in East London and South London has some relatively high crime areas, and a significant number of people living in social housing. The best Zone 2 areas are in North London along the Hampstead branch of the Northern Line underground, and the Jubilee line going through St. John's Wood.