London Banter - View Single Post - TfL, Oyster, contactless payment cards and Apple Pay.

Richard[_3_] · April 12th 16, 07:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 18:51:44 -0500,
wrote:

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

If I was in your shoes I'd just set up auto top up on Oyster and use
that. That deals with your issues around lack of a convenient "top up"
location or you forgetting to top up.

How does that work if only using buses? Any online top ups I've ever made
had to be "collected" at a tube station gateline.

As noted, the OP did make such a journey, and the product can also be
collected at any National Rail gateline in London. It's worth doing
once, IMO, and if Mr OP doesn't like that, he can buy a card with auto
top-up already enabled online (without knowing the reason why that's
apparently impossible I have to recommend it as the way to go!). In
the most goat-herding case, an unmade rail journey could probably be
backed-out by the call centre, but I can understand completely why he
would prefer not to do that.

I can have "Android pay" or whatever soon, so I might try that on the
bus to satisfy my inner geek. I don't remember seeing people using
mobiles much, but as Neil mentions contactless card payments do seem
to take a bit longer, in fact it seems that standard Oyster takes a
*little* longer now.

It would be nice to have all these options when I travel outside
London!

Richard.