In message .com, at
07:41:44 on Sat, 4 Aug 2007, W14_Fishbourne
remarked:
On Aug 4, 1:21 pm, Roland Perry wrote:

But what if all I have is an SWT card, will the barriers recognise that
at Melton Mowbray, Peterborough and Huntingdon and send the relevant
messages back to SWT - who will then debit the fare from me and
afterwards pass it through the settlement system just like if I paid for
that fare at a SWT ticket office today.

Or will the barrier at Melton Mowbray say to both my SWT and XC cards
"Unrecognised card, you must use an EM card" (despite almost all the
trains being XC)?

Look at it this way, iIf you buy a mag card Travelcard from SWT, will
it be refused for travel on South Eastern services just because it's
in an SWT plastic wallet?

I think "Travelcard" implies the London area, which is likely to be much
more inter-operable just because of the Oyster project. And a Travelcard
isn't PAYG, so is a much simpler problem.

Think of an ITSO card in the same way - it's simply an electronic
wallet in which you keep your tickets. The TOCs couldn't care whose
name is on the wallet you keep the ticket in, it's the ticket that
matters.

Sounds great; so it's "Bank of ATOC" and not "Bank of ToC" that my money
gets debited from by whatever ToC I finish my journey at and who does
the sums about how much it should have cost to get there from where I
started. Presumably grippers on the train will do stuff like alerting
the card as one that's been used on a "savers banned" train, so I'm
charged a full open fare rather than a saver when I wave out?
--
Roland Perry