In message of Sun, 11 Nov
2012 01:04:24 in uk.transport.london, Paul Corfield
writes

[snip]

My guess, as I don't know how the card has been specified, is that it
is coded as a "Permit" just like a Freedom Pass. It has the same
London area validity but is not an English Concessionary Pass so it
will not have the english rose symbol printed on it. I don't know
whether London Freedom Passes are now both Oyster and ITSO compatible
but if so then I would expect the 60+ Oyster (your card) to just be
Oyster compatible.

Permits act like a season ticket within the area, times and modes
specified. They are not able to have a PAYG purse working alongside.
This question has been raised many times in Mayor's Questions due to
the lack of 24 hour availability on National Rail services for Freedom
Passes and the answer has always been "your constituent must obtain a
separate Oyster PAYG card and pay fares before 0930 M-F".

What is the reasoning behind that?


Permits should be readable by a ticket office machine operated by a
ticket clerk but I am not certain if journey history is displayed if
you tap the card at a passenger ticket machine (POM). I think my old
TfL Staff Pass could be read at a POM so it's possible the basic (last
10) journey details would be displayed as that's what on the card.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_card says "... Touch screen ticket
machines report the last eight journeys and last top-up amount. The same
information is available as a print-out from ticket offices, and also
on-board London Buses by request. ..."

I can get last 8 journeys on Oyster Cards and on my Freedom Pass. I
assume the same is true on the 60+ Oyster issued to my better half.

A Freedom Pass can't be associated with an Oyster online account.
I found it possible, but unreasonably tedious, to get an 8 week printout
on paper with a Freedom of Information Act request.
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Walter Briscoe