May 2011 – Oyster Fares Central

The OEP is Dead – R.I.P.

26/08/202122/05/2011 by Mike

Oyster users mixing travelcards and pay-as-you-go no longer need to worry about OEPs. Hurrah!!!

I’ve just received an email from TfL about Oyster. I’m presuming it was sent because my card is registered. It’s a real shame that they couldn’t have sent a similar email in December 2009 alerting everyone to the new Oyster Extension Permits. This could have saved so many people from falling victim to those not-very-nice management people at South Eastern who are still imposing penalty fares at their London terminals. I reckon there will be

Railcards & Oyster – help wanted

02/10/202113/05/2011 by Mike

The BBC are looking to run a feature about linking National Railcards and Oyster cards on a radio programme next week. They are looking for people to share their experiences of getting the cards linked (good or bad) and views about the (lack of) publicity telling people that they can do this.

New OSIs from May 22nd

26/08/202111/05/2011 by Mike

I’ve received the latest list from TfL via a Freedom of Information request. It confirms my suspiscion that the helpdesk didn’t know what they were saying when they told me that the Finsbury Park OSI was 90 minutes. As I thought, it is actually 10 minutes, which is quite reasonable for the short distance involved. There are also two new interchanges

Finsbury Park – Update

26/08/202101/05/2011 by Mike

I’ve been informed by a visitor that the new gatelines are active on the NR platforms at Finsbury Park. This means that it is now important to touch out and in again when interchanging between NR and LU. There are information posters explaining the new system. I await confirmation with my latest freedom of information … Read more