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Post by mattdickinson on Mar 10, 2023 8:56:58 GMT
TfL are to scrap paper tickets by 2024, according to a MyLondon report. It's unclear whether its magnetic tickets that will stop being issued, with barcoded tickets issued instead, or paper tickets entirely abolished and the remaining tickets replaced by app based products. It also states that TfL platform tickets are to be abolished.
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Post by mattdickinson on Aug 1, 2019 18:05:00 GMT
Ah, thanks. (And even after all that "PAYG is so great!!" advertizing, you'd think they had it setup already.) It's been set up for some time, but two National Rail TOCs are objecting to its implementation.
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Post by mattdickinson on Apr 11, 2019 17:01:16 GMT
Related to this? Utter lunacy, of course, seeing as how these car parks are used for the rail replacement coaches. Not so....
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Post by mattdickinson on Apr 11, 2019 13:38:30 GMT
I believe that Enhanced TPWS (fitting it to every signal) is regarded to be as safe as GW-ATP. Here is a report from 2015.
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Post by mattdickinson on Mar 9, 2019 22:28:52 GMT
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Post by mattdickinson on Jan 6, 2019 9:15:54 GMT
Could it be that the station systems haven't got the codes for Aldgate East Lt [ZAE] and have simply reverted to the closest one that is does which is Anerley [ANZ]? I know that as a TOC, London Overground have the full tranche of stations uploaded onto their announcement systems regardless of route or even possibility of being a destination including stations that are not on the LO/LU/TfL Rail network. Another possibility is that the old CRS code for Anerley (ANY) has caused an issue.
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Post by mattdickinson on Nov 10, 2018 15:28:59 GMT
Contactless and Oyster PAYG is due to launch mid-November on Heathrow Express. Upgrades to Business First will be available on board, which I think is a first for contactless or Oyster PAYG.
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Post by mattdickinson on Nov 10, 2018 10:59:23 GMT
Is there an intended ultimate outer bound for the Oyster system? Although there is no reason why it couldn't handle point to point fares, and thus work anywhere, they would need to do something about the already iniquitous 'maximum fare' system. And increase the maximum fare payable for incomplete journeys to a ridiculous amount to deter long distance travellers from “forgetting” to touch in or out! The answer in Denmark is to have a setting on the card for local or national journeys, settable at TVMs, which alters the initial entry charge from DKK 70 (about £8) to DKK 600 (about £70). www.rejsekort.dk/koeb-rejsekort/sammenlign-rejsekort/rejsekort-anonymt/landsdaekkende-rejser-med-rejsekort-anonymt.aspx
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Post by mattdickinson on Nov 9, 2018 13:17:55 GMT
According to the latest Ticketing & Revenue Update, Oyster PAYG should be extended to Hertford North and Epsom next January. (Welwyn Garden City is not mentioned). Stations between Iver and Reading will be placed in the non published zone 15 (F). Oyster at present can only cope with zones up to 15, so any further zones will require modifications.
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Post by mattdickinson on Oct 29, 2018 10:51:30 GMT
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Post by mattdickinson on Sept 21, 2018 22:40:00 GMT
The list of stations affected is... Acton Central, Anerley, Brondesbury, Brondesbury Park, Bruce Gove, Bush Hill Park, Caledonian Road & Barnsbury, Camden Road, Canonbury, Carpenders Park, Clapton, Dalston Kingsland, Dalston Junction, Finchley Road & Frognal, Gospel Oak, Hackney Central, Hackney Downs, Hackney Wick, Haggerston, Hampstead Heath, Hatch End, Headstone Lane, Homerton, Honor Oak Park, Hoxton, Imperial Wharf, Kensal Rise, Kensington (Olympia), Kentish Town West, Kilburn High Road, Penge West, Rectory Road, Rotherhithe, Shadwell, Shepherds Bush, Shoreditch High Street, Silver Street, South Acton, South Hampsted, Southbury, St James Street, Stamford Hill, Stoke Newington, Surrey Quays, Theobalds Gove, Turkey Street, Wapping, Watford High Street, West Hampstead, White Hart Lane and Wood Street. Please note this does not include all stations used by London Overground. The London Overground ticket offices that survive are: Brockley, Bushey, Chingford, Crystal Palace, Edmonton Green, Enfield Town, Forest Hill, Highams Park, New Cross Gate, Norwood Junction, Sydenham, Walthamstow Central, West Croydon and Willesden Junction. Consultation
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Post by mattdickinson on Aug 27, 2018 16:22:20 GMT
The other reason for the service is to retain driver route knowledge when Chiltern services are diverted from Marylebone.
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Post by mattdickinson on Apr 21, 2018 17:53:12 GMT
Rayners Lane has finally had DMIs installed, although they aren't active yet. Are there any other platforms left on the Met without DMIs?
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Post by mattdickinson on Sept 12, 2017 20:22:00 GMT
I passed through Gunnersbury last week and it was still open. I dont know about Kew Gardens but will find out soon as I plan to go there in August. As an aside, this station actually has two separate fares paid areas, as each platform is gated independently. Both linking footpaths between the platforms (one is via a bridge, the other via an underpass) are outside the fares paid areas. Simon New ticket machines have now been installed at Gunnersbury and Kew Gardens. They offer tickets to all National Rail stations (I tried Penzance and Wick), and tickets starting from other stations. The menu also had a grayed out button for ticket collection, and Oyster Travel card extensions outside the zones just led to a blank screen. At the moment, the ticket offices at Kew Gardens and Gunnersbury seem to be open. No sign of any change at the Bakerloo stations.
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Post by mattdickinson on Sept 11, 2017 15:35:38 GMT
All my cards, including ones reported lost or faulty a long time ago appear in the app.
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Post by mattdickinson on Jul 10, 2017 13:55:41 GMT
They said a Freedom Pass should be valid all the way to Reading on the Crossrail Elizabeth line only. If the line operates with severe delays, cancellations, or is suspended/closed, then Freedom Pass holders will be allowed to travel on GWR services (London Paddington <-> Reading only - including stations inbetween) for nothing. While I have no doubt you were told this in good faith the potential validity of the Freedom Pass west of West Drayton is a matter for London Councils as funders of the scheme. There has been some debate about this on London Reconnections and there is no legal obligation for the Freedom Pass to be valid as far as Reading although it is apparently mandatory for the Freedom Pass to be accepted on "TfL" rail services. Somehow I doubt the legal drafters quite anticipated a TfL service reaching Reading. I will be genuinely surprised if the Freedom Pass stretches as far as Reading even if someone sits on a Crossrail train for however long an all stopper service takes. Slough I could half understand but places like Maidenhead or Reading - that's quite a stretch. Here is an informed remark from LR Therefore we can see the issue is being considered now but there is no legal requirement for free travel to reach Reading. In no way is Reading "in the vicinity" of Greater London. The scale of fare compensation to be borne by London Council taxpayers could be quite high if too many people were to utilise a hypothetical free concession as far as Reading. I know the Mayor and his predecessor have uttered grand words about fares and concessions on Crossrail but the reality is complex, involved and far from being solely in their control (see Phil's earlier posts). A document studying the legal background of Freedom Passes is available at www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/node/16113and a parliamentary debate about what constitutes "in the vicinity of" at hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1963/jul/25/clause-21-housing-powers-in-greaterKeith Joseph ends up defining it:
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Post by mattdickinson on Mar 4, 2017 12:16:05 GMT
That's the whole point of ITSO. If you have a product loaded that is valid on other companies services (e.g. a Travelcard) it will function. The disclaimer is there because, at the moment, you can't put TOC-specific products (such as a point-to-point) on a different TOC's smart card. Likewise, those operators that have a PAYG-esque function don't allow this to be used on other TOCs. And yes, before anyone asks (again), ITSO works on TfL services. SWT TVMs outside London allow SWT point-to-point tickets to be loaded on to any ITSO card.
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Post by mattdickinson on Feb 23, 2017 19:53:24 GMT
LU has published a paper about the next steps to implement the recommendations from the Mayoral / LTW review of the ticket office closure plan. content.tfl.gov.uk/csopp-20170302-part-1-item10-london-underground-station-action-plan.pdfConfirms 325 extra staff to be recruited. They are to be mainly deployed in outer area / quieter stations. There also seem to be a number of other tweaks and adjustments to publicity, signage, staff deployment, technology etc. There is also reference to the upcoming Oyster App - apparently in customer trials now. This will allow people to check card balances, top up / buy season tickets on the go and then collect them 30 minutes later as they use a gateline. Other features will be added later in the year. I knew the app was imminent but not that it had go into a customer trial stage. Pick up on buses should also be possible. Details are at: What Do They Know
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Post by mattdickinson on Nov 8, 2016 12:41:23 GMT
Thanks Jack. I wish the same was possible with PAYG, as there have been times when I've had to visit the ticket gates at East Croydon solely to end or start a PAYG journey. What would be clever is the ability to 'split ticket' a journey in which the single / return ticket on an ITSO smartcard also ends or start a PAYG journey! Maybe the post 2018 changes will include this ability. Simon Part of the ITSO on Prestige roll-out was acceptance of TYP 22 ITSO on TfL. This is only implemented at the moment as Southern Keygo, so extension of Keygo to London is possible in the future.
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Post by mattdickinson on Sept 22, 2016 16:23:52 GMT
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Post by mattdickinson on Sept 9, 2016 11:52:36 GMT
Phasing out of all Mifare cards is already underway, in a roundabout manner. A recent software modification has removed the ability to refund Mifare cards using the self-service functionality, although it is retained on the TOM. Staff are also encouraged to replicate any Mifare cards encountered with a new Desfire variant, although in practice this isn't something there is necessarily the time to do. It tends to only crop up if the card is starting to fail (i.e. reads intermittently). How does someone tell what type of card they have? Or is this only for station staff to be able to do? The card which I have that is registered is almost certainly one of the oldest types, from circa 2003. Maybe in the future (when present-day Oyster cards have all been phased out) it will prove to be valuable as a memento, in the same way as some people collect Edmundson card and other types of tickets! Simon MiFare Desfire Oyster cards have a white on blue D on the reverse of the card An example:
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Post by mattdickinson on Sept 8, 2016 16:28:26 GMT
The fare charged under the central resolution model is done at 4:30am. Thus when insufficient funds are available, the card will simply stop operating the next day. This must mean the end of the anonymous dispenser model of Oyster cards unless the minimum value on an anonymous dispensed card covers the maximum daily cap - otherwise every day you'd buy an anonymous £10 Oyster card to travel in from Shenfield or Watford and just junk it at the end of the day. I think the system will have to retain the current double-headed local and central transaction resolution modes unless they plan to end anonymous Oyster altogether. Maybe the old and the new Oyster cards are the MiFAIR Classic and MiFAIR Plus cards? I can see them turning off Classic support in the near future. EDIT: To avoid too much thread drift, I think that if the "New Oyster" is simply the transferral of Classic card balances to Plus cards, then there won't be that many of them left, so doing it "on-the-floor" rather than at a ticket office window won't be a continuous headache. The only way I can see it working for anonymous cards is for central resolution fares to be processed after each journey, rather than at 4.30am the next day with contactless. This would still take most of the processing load off the gateline. At the moment gates and bus ticket machines are updated with a Deny list if the 10p Contactless transaction made on the first usage each day fails. For Oyster there would have to be a Warn list (top up before next journey) transmitted after each journey calculation also.
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Post by mattdickinson on Sept 8, 2016 15:46:20 GMT
What is also interesting is how customers will be advised that they need to top up when the balance will no longer be displayed at the gateline or on bus ticket machines.
I think that the "one more journey" function will have to be extended to the tube.
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Post by mattdickinson on Jul 1, 2016 12:38:26 GMT
It is reported in the Metro that Wells Terrace entrance of Finsbury Park station is to close from the 18th July for redevelopment.
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Post by mattdickinson on Dec 18, 2015 16:35:44 GMT
What about Freedom Pass users,there is never anything about FP with regards to a new service such as this and Stratford?
Did Dartford become part of Z8 recently? I heard someone talk about it at Charing X recently and I wasn't sure. It is very unlikely that Freedom Pass availability will extend any further outside Greater London. Dartford has been in Zone 8 for a few months. Oyster fares for stations to Gatwick Airport and the Gatwick Express are now shown on the 2016 fares tab of the TfL single fare finder.
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Post by mattdickinson on Dec 8, 2015 12:22:38 GMT
Paper from this week's Rail and Underground Panel about improvements to Finsbury Park station including gating, closure of Wells Terrace ticket hall, new Western entrance and step free access. Paper and presentationTicket gates are now in operation at all three tube entrances.
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Post by mattdickinson on Oct 20, 2015 13:43:45 GMT
Travelcards on Oyster are to Hertford East are also available according to Oyster Online (which include validity to Watford Junction...)
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Post by mattdickinson on May 6, 2015 12:15:55 GMT
ITSO cards can now be read at London Underground POMs.
The top of the screen lists the journey history. Underneath this is a section for products valid in the TfL area. The product details are undecoded so not very useful at present. The bottom states whether the card holds products valid outside the TfL area.
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Heathrow
Nov 1, 2014 1:25:07 GMT
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Post by mattdickinson on Nov 1, 2014 1:25:07 GMT
I think one of the main problems is that passengers with Travelcards will have no incentive to touch out at Heathrow (to pay the premium). Maybe the OEP will be resurrected... The OEP was one of the most confusing ideas ever conceived by a company (SWT, who else) more concerned with "protecting" revenue than attracting custom (or at least not frightening people away). Anyway, the solution to no barriers at Heathrow is simply to ensure that the fare charged for an unresolved journey is always greater than the maximum fare that can be charged (i.e Zone 9 to Zone 1 plus the premium) The unresolved journey charge was increased when zones wee extended to 9, and again when different NR/TfL fares were introduced. It can be set as high as you like - £50 if you want. When a Travelcard journey is started within its zones there is no entry charge and hence no unresolved journey charge, whatever its level. For example, a traveller with a Z1-5 Travelcard travelling from Paddington beyond Hayes and Harlington to Heathrow will not be charged an unresolved journey charge (but would be liable for a penalty at the moment.)
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Post by mattdickinson on Oct 31, 2014 19:51:52 GMT
Just a quick question, when Crossrail takes over the Heathrow Connect services will Oyster be allowed on that route through to Heathrow or will it be the same as it is currently? I don't think anyone knows for certain. It's desirable certainly. There were plans for Oyster to be extended to H'row Connect a few years ago but it fell through for some unspecified reason. I imagine Heathrow Express don't want gates which means you'd need validators or some other way of ensuring Oyster cards can be validated. I understand that even under Crossrail operation the premium fare into Heathrow will remain because it is required by BAA to pay off the debt for constructing the link in the first place. Some details about those plans are at What Do They Know?. I think one of the main problems is that passengers with Travelcards will have no incentive to touch out at Heathrow (to pay the premium). Maybe the OEP will be resurrected...
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