What this simply means is, if you travel to or through Shoreditch High Street on the new ELL, you will be charged as if you have travelled into a zone 1 area. In other words the fare will be the same as if you had travelled from FH to LB using the ELL or Southern.

When the rail authorities decided to sneakily redesignate SHS as Zone 1 (rather than Zone 2 as it used to be) a few months ago, the ELL publicity department had a great deal of the wind blown out of their sails. Up until then, they had merrily talked of how much cheaper it would be to use the ELL and how this line was an "orbital motorway" allowing south London to connect with north London etc. It's an orbital motorway alright, but one where you pay the central London congestion charges! Someone's got to pay for the hole in TfL's budget, I suppose, and this is one way of helping to do just that.

However, it will still be cheaper to travel to Canary Wharf and areas to the east from FH (via Canada Water) since this does not mean travelling through any stations in Zone 1.