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As reported earlier, a gremlin got into the setting of off-peak caps from all the stations east of Shenfield, other than Beaulieu Park. Southend Airport was also thought to be fine, but it turns out that was affected as well. The result of this gremlin is that the TfL system believes that the off-peak caps … Read more

Three new out-of-station-interchanges (OSIs) have been introduced this month. The first two are to solve a problem at both Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City where some passengers may want to change trains but have to exit through a gateline and enter another one to do so.  The OSI at Stevenage is between platforms 1-4 and … Read more

These are the extensions that were pulled out of the December update at the last minute. The reason given at the time was that there were some technical issues. When the new stations were enabled in the fare finder at the end of February it became clear what some of those issues were; including Broxbourne … Read more

Thanks to the government this years fare revision is not as far reaching as usual. They proudly announced that they were freezing most fares on National Rail services until March 2027, but somehow they forgot that they’d agreed a funding settlement with TfL which required their fares to be increased by RPI+1. It wouldn’t be … Read more

When TfL first decided to combine the Oyster app with TfL Go it’s fair to say that the journey history function left a lot to be desired.  Each journey showed only the start time and the destination, and if you clicked on a journey it didn’t show any intermediate touches, just the start and end … Read more

Time for a review of the latest expansion of contactless payments in the South East.  It’s safe to say that things didn’t go according to plan, but read on for more details, including measures being taken to address issues that have been found. Information on this site I’m pleased to say that adding extra information … Read more

As part of the set up for the additions to Project Oval next weekend, many of the caps for GTR family routes are being revised for contactless PAYG users from tomorrow.  All the daily caps will be set at a small discount (usually 3%) to the price of the one day travelcard, in common with … Read more

Just as I’m preparing updates to include the 50 new stations in the Project Oval PAYG rollout, Greater Anglia has announced that it’s extensions to Stansted Airport, Witham and Southend Victoria have been deferred until Summer 2026.  The Chiltern extensions to Aylesbury Vale Parkway, and Thameslink/Southern/Great Northern extensions to Harlington, Baldock, Dorking, Reigate and East … Read more

This also probably applies to the other stations between Reading and Iver, plus the branches for Henley, Marlow and Windsor as well. First the bad news.  The off-peak cap from Reading when using PAYG appears to have risen by £1 to £35.40 from September 7th.  We know that GWR increased the prices of off-peak day … Read more