The Mayor and Transport for London have announced a special commemorative version of the Oyster card will be available in the week leading up to the Royal Wedding. It will cost the usual £10 (£5 deposit and £5 PAYG balance) and be available from Read the rest of this entry »
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In a day over two months time the OEP will be no more, but this is not stopping South Eastern from making a fast buck. They are blatantly targeting people who are about to have the correct fare for their journey deducted from the PAYG balance on their card. And these are people with travelcards stored on their Oyster card, often expensive annual ones. The phrase “biting the hand that feeds you” springs to mind here.
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Other travel during the day had almost applied an off-peak cap to my card so I took the opportunity to investigate reports of problems, both current and future, at Finsbury Park. Before I outline the full story though, the important message here is that at the moment you do NOT need to touch out or in if interchanging between Underground and National Rail. In fact, if you try to touch out you will hit serious problems.
As usual I started my journey at Crayford. Read the rest of this entry »
Maximum Journey, OSI Issues, Oyster Diary
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Following a summit at City Hall with the Mayor, TfL and the London TOCs a number of improvements to travel within London have been announced. The best one is that the Oyster Extension Permit will be killed off from 22nd May 2011, just over 16 months since it’s introduction. Other measures include Read the rest of this entry »
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Just for a change I thought I’d write about some general rail news. This week saw the opening of the missing link in the London Orbital Railway. Note, this isn’t the one that TfL will want you to know about because this one isn’t entirely coloured orange. We’ll have to wait until the end of next year for that version. However, in the meantime Read the rest of this entry »
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