TfL has advised that the photocard website will be unavailable between 16-24 July.  This will allow major upgrade work to happen to the back office system ensuring that the 20-year-old photocard product continues to be fit for use. Existing photocards will continue to operate normally, and topups can be made at ticket machines and Oyster … Read more

There has been a problem with Oyster Capping dating back to January 2010 when PAYG was rolled out across all Greater London rail services and extended to cover the Grays area in Essex.  This has finally been addressed (fixed would be doing a lot of heavy lifting) although the Grays area has not yet taken … Read more

There is a pretty nasty problem for some people using Apple Pay’s Express Transit feature.  Details below, but first an overview of the feature. Apple Pay Express Transit Within Apple Pay you have the ability to set a feature called Express Transit and select a card to always use with it. This card does not … Read more

Some good news! A few years ago TfL introduced retrospective weekly capping for blue adult Oyster cards without any discounts. This meant that each days journeys were run through the same back-office function as is used to calculate daily and weekly charges for contactless cards and devices. At the time it was stated that discounted … Read more

The Mayor of London has announced a new initiative to encourage bus and tram usage at weekends in the summer holidays.  It will run for six weekends from July 25th to August 31st, including the bank holiday Monday on the last day. After making one chargeable bus/tram journey on a day, all further bus/tram journeys … Read more

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