The expected coverage of PAYG fares has fluctuated since the initial proposals, with Oxford talked about early on but now dropped, while Alton is now included. The current area is detailed in the map below, showing where contactless is already available, where it is due to be rolled out to later this year, and where it is hoped it will eventually get to. Click on the map to open a full size version.
A note regarding the Luton DART, which appears on the TfL Tube and Rail Map and the NR London & SE Map, but not this map, as having contactless valid.
Despite being the same system of transport ticketing on contactless cards, it’s not integrated into the South East PAYG system and is treated as a separate journey. It’s therefore correctly not on this map.
Omitting DART is fair enough, since it’s not a train. There’s lots of non-train things that TfL-contactless allows, no need for every map to include them all. I will note however that St Pancras to Stratford International (HS1) is also not shown, despite definitely being a train.
That quibble aside, this is undoubtedly a nicely-done and useful map.
Cheers both,
I must admit that I wasn’t expecting the first comments to be about things missing from the map, and even praising them for being missing.
Everything on the map is National Rail, so for me that precluded the Dart, dangleway, clippers, Underground and DLR. HS1 is a tricky one. At the moment it can be excluded under not all lines are shown within zones 1-9. I may well have to reconsider if/when Ebbsfleet accepts contactless. Currently it is outside of cappping which will be a big focus of this section. Will there be higher caps if someone touches out at St Pancras or Stratford Internationals? Or will the DfT relent and bring the line into the zones proper? At the moment I feel further expansions beyond what was promised in January may not happen for a long time, or maybe I’m being overly pessimistic.
After finding a pretty serious error (the dot for Aylesbury was missing the name) I’ve now updated the map. HS1 has been added and I’ve shrunk the lone line to the south coast so there isn’t as much blank space floating around.