[Gllug] Oyster cards vulnerable?

[Bernard Peek]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 23:24 +0000, J. Dudley Swale wrote:
>   
>> On Sunday 27 January 2008 20:27, John G Walker wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:16:16 +0000 Christopher Currie <ccurrie at usa.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> I'm sorry: it's changed since some time last year, when a colleague
>>>> of mine specifically could not use her Oyster on a national rail
>>>> route that she wanted to use regularly.
>>>>         
>>> You can't use pay-as-you-go Oysters on National Rail. Maybe this is
>>> what you mean.
>>> You've always been able to use seaso9n ticket Oysters on national rail
>>> services that take paper season tickets,
>>>  All the best,
>>>  John
>>>       
>> We do not have such a thing as national Rail anymore. The acceptability of 
>> Oyster now depends on the train operator on that Route. 
>> For example from Clapham Junction they are valid on the line to Watford 
>> Junction but not on any of the other routes which are all run by South West 
>> Trains who do not accept  them.
>>
>> John
>>
>>     
>
> Where do you get the above nonsense from?
>
> http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/oystercard.html
>
> "London Overground" - managed by TfL - is the route/network that accepts
> "pay as you go" as you describe. But a travelcard is valid whether it is
> paper or on an Oyster.
>
>   
Actually, he's mostly right. Not all of the rail companies in the London 
area accept Oyster PAYG although I think all of them accept zone-based 
Oyster travelcards. London Overground accept Oyster PAYG but they only 
run a small part of the network.

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