This is not an Oyster (or contactless) issue, but it is related to travel in London and needs highlighting. Since March 2016 Swanley in Kent has been placed in London travel zone 8. This coincided with acceptance of Oyster PAYG from March 9th that year. It also meant that day travelcards for zones 1-9 and … Read more
I’m reliabley informed that the hated one-way system at Finsbury Park has been removed, so Great Northern and Thameslink customers changing onto the Underground no longer have to walk round a massive detour outside.
Lewisham has been a bit of a nightmare ever since they started trying to make it accessible, along with the addition of the DLR platforms. It’s come a long way since the only entrance was at the London end of platforms 2 and 3 and access to platforms 1 and 4 was via a subway … Read more
This may seem like a strange question, but if you read this recent article on the MyLondon website you may be confused. The article explains how several pairs of stations are linked so that journeys are charged as one. In it the author asserts: You must not touch anything else with your Oystercard or contactless … Read more
Is anyone else having problems signing into their accounts on the TfL website? Every time I try to log in I have to complete the wretched captcha puzzle at least twice and often three times. It’s not because I get the pictures wrong either. After the first attempt I’m redirected back to the “are you … Read more
A few weeks ago I wrote about the removal of Oyster facilities at most NR ticket offices. The last two remaining train companies were London Overground and TfL Rail, both concessions of TfL. This week it has been confirmed that both of these will also lose their ticket office capabilities this month. A Transport for … Read more
I’m delighted to report that the fare finder now includes all-day and off-peak caps for stations where contactless only is accepted. In all cases the all-day cap is the same as the anytime day travelcard and the off-peak cap is the same as the off-peak day travelcard. These caps only allow unlimited travel within zones … Read more
There no longer seem to be direct links between fares or concessions and the ongoing funding settlements, unless I’m missing something, so I’m not going to delve too deeply into the topic. The condition that seems to be producing all the headlines this time is “driverless trains”, a topic that means different things to different … Read more
I’ve finally been hit with the mystery invisible pink reader phenomenon. On Monday I made the journey shown in the image. The touch in at Waterloo mainline was definitely made at a gateline with a yellow reader attached, yet the journey history describes it as a pink reader. I wonder whether it might be connected … Read more
I’ve added a new section in the menu above called Longer Reads. This is for articles which don’t really fit in the information pages but have a longer shelf life than latest news. I’ll be adding more topics in the future, but the first one is a look at the cheap short-hop fares which cross … Read more