Mike (admin) It’s not often that something to do with Oyster stops me in my tracks, but this week it has happened. Thanks to my friend Geoff who spotted this sign at East Croydon. I went down to have a look and asked some questions. From what I can gather it is linked to a fire alarm … Read more
TfL have announced that Kentish Town, on the Northern line, will re-open to passengers on Monday 23rd December. The work on the escalators is complete, along with a comprehensive deep clean and a new floor and ceiling in the ticket hall. They have also increased the number of gates to 7. There is still some … Read more
The Rail Delivery Group made a change to the way discounted fares are calculated earlier this year. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpw8j4d1v2do for more details. As a result of this some railcard single fares on Oyster now cost slightly more (5p, or possibly 10p) than they did at the last fares change in March. The somewhat disturbing side … Read more
After what seems like a lifetime, but in reality is just over 3 months, all public facing systems are now back online after the cyber security incident. There are likely to be some delays while the backlog of refund requests is worked through. Oyster journey history has been kept live to enable refunds to be … Read more
Following a tip off from a forum user I’ve discovered a number of anomalies where the fare from Epsom to stations in zones 4-6 is cheaper that the fare from Ewell (East or West as appropriate) to the same station. In part this comes down to different people setting the fares; South Western Railway/Southern are … Read more
Considering that we are in the middle of a general election campaign and that this project (Oval) is being sponsored by the Department for Transport, I was quite surprised to see that six new stations joined the contactless PAYG system yesterday. The six stations are: Beaconsfield, Denham, Denham Golf Club, Gerrards Cross, High Wycombe and … Read more
I’d like to apologise to subscribers who will have receieved several notifications of new posts in recent weeks which were not genuine posts. The unusual method of signing up, requiring a response to an email, has been enough to keep the forum pretty much spam free for several years. However, it is clear that some … Read more
This update has been quite rushed thanks to the very delayed availability of some of the information. I believe that all the site pages with live fares have now been updated. If you spot something which doesn’t look right, please do let me know by commenting on this post. Headline changes are: No change to … Read more
The Mayor has today confirmed that a 12-Friday trial of off-peak PAYG fares and caps will begin next Friday, 8th March, and run until Friday 31st May (note 29th March was already off-peak being Good Friday). All PAYG fares will be off-peak all-day, including National Rail contactless fares out to Reading, Luton Airport Parkway and … Read more
Many of you will have seen the news that TfL are to allocate separate names to each of the different lines operated by London Overground. This is good news. No longer will a problem between Romford and Upminster give the potential impression that it will be difficult to travel from Richmond to Willesden Junction. The … Read more