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Temporary OSIs for the Olympics

26/08/202130/07/2012 by Mike

I have heard via a site visitor that there are two new OSIs in place for the period of the Olympics and Paralympics. The first one is between Aldgate and Aldgate East and works as long as you touch back in within 20 minutes, either way round. The second one is between London Bridge NR … Read more

Oyster, the Olympics and HS1

26/08/202110/07/2012 by Mike

Wow, have the authorities managed to screw things up over the headline Javelin services to Stratford International. Ordinarily the HS1 line between St Pancras and Gravesend or Ashford via Stratford and Ebbsfleet is a premium service. As such, travelcards and Oyster cards are not valid on the services and there are no Oyster readers on the gatelines. But London 2012 is the public transport games and needs to be as simple as possible.

Olympic Volunteer Oyster Cards

26/08/202118/05/2012 by Mike

I’ve now managed to get some official information about the various cards being issued to volunteers at the Olympic and Paralympic games.

Firstly, it appears that the Mayor’s ambassadors

Olympic Ambassador Travelcards

03/10/202107/05/2012 by Mike

This post has largely been superceeded by this revised version.

I’ve had a couple of questions about these Oyster cards which are being supplied to volunteers who are helping visitors to London and the games during the Olympics.

£4.60 error at Paddington?

26/08/202101/04/2012 by Mike

In the last week both BBC London and the Evening Standard have run stories about passengers being charged £4.60 to walk through part of Paddington station. The reporter from the Evening Standard even phoned me up and talked through what was happening. I suggested to him that this was a simple Same Station Exit, but sadly that didn’t explicitly make it into the article. More alarmingly, TfL staff didn’t seem to know what was going on and promised to investigate what was happening. In an effort to understand the issue clearly I went to Paddington myself last Thursday evening.

Journey history time wrong

26/08/202130/03/2012 by Mike

I noticed yesterday that the times reported on the journey history screen are all out by an hour since the clocks went forward last Sunday. The times shown are a further hour ahead so it looks like something is compensating for summer time when it doesn’t need to. The Oyster system clock is correct so … Read more

Same station re-entry problems

26/08/202127/03/2012 by Mike

Several visitors have reported problems when touching out and back in again at the same station. The system tries to combine the two journeys into one, often resulting in a pair of incomplete journeys when you get back to your starting station. But if your journey included an OSI en-route then you may well end up out of the system altogether and be given a penalty fare!

New OSI list from Jan 2012

26/08/202121/03/2012 by Mike

I have received a new list of OSIs which is dated January 2012. Not much has changed, but there are new OSIs between Aldgate and Tower Gateway, the two Edgware Road stations and different gatelines at Farringdon and Oxford Circus. The temporary ones between Blackfriars NR and alternate District line stations are still active at … Read more

Journey history – 2nd update

26/08/202102/03/2012 by Mike

The next stage of the journey history modifications has just gone live. The old, very difficult to understand, version has been discontinued in favour of an option to expand details for every journey. You no longer need to have bought online credit to access journey history and you can also see touches on pink validators … Read more

Hackney/Dalston to Northern Line

26/08/202109/02/2012 by Mike

A visitor to this site has highlighted some missing fares between stations on the North London Line and the northern branches of the Northern line. I have sent the following email