David of Broadway wrote:

MIG wrote:

On Mar 18, 7:12 pm, David of Broadway
wrote:

MIG wrote:

I bet you are looking forward to Oyster being introduced on FCC/One in
Greater London, so that you'll have to get off to touch in/out and
wait half an hour for the next train every journey or else pay more
for the bit where you could do it on Oyster (probably at an
excessively hiked rate to discourage non-Oyster use in Greater London
etc).

Put a few Oyster pads on the train.


If the relevant authorities were prepared to do this, they would have
done so on LU trains. They have not done so. Why should we expect
any better when Oyster is introduced on NR?


What purpose would Oyster pads serve on LU trains?

The entire LU system is within the zones, and all stations served by LU
trains have Oyster pads.


I think you are missing the situation where paper travelcards are
combined with Oyster PAYG. Say for example that you have a National Rail
season ticket from a station outside the zones that includes a Z2-6
travelcard. If you one day want to travel into zone 1 using LU services
it is not practically possible to combine it with Oyster PAYG.

It is of course possible to get off the train at the last Z2 station, up
the escalators, out through the gates with the paper travelcard and in
again with the Oyster card and then down to the next train, but it would
help with Oyster validators on the trains in this situation.

The demand for it is probably higher on National Rail trains, but there
are situations they could be useful on tube trains too.

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