Oyster Fares Central

On Sunday 16th August a friend messaged me describing a really weird situation and asking if I’d ever seen anything like it before.

Yes, you read that right.

A trial has silently started (on July 5th) whereby passengers who touch in or out at 16 Central London National Rail stations will be charged an enhanced incomplete journey charge if they do not touch out or in at the station at the other end of the journ…

One of the anomalies created when contactless was extended to Windsor & Eton Riverside was the treatment of journeys from the Slough area to the Staines area via the two Windsor stations.

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.

There is a pretty nasty problem for some people using Apple Pay’s Express Transit feature.

Some good news!

The Mayor of London has announced a new initiative to encourage bus and tram usage at weekends in the summer holidays.

As reported earlier, a gremlin got into the setting of off-peak caps from all the stations east of Shenfield, other than Beaulieu Park.

Three new out-of-station-interchanges (OSIs) have been introduced this month.