On 15 Dec, 15:57, Michael Hoffman wrote:
U Thant reports on his blog that:

"Another new thing in the fares leaflet is the availability of Railcard
discounted fares caps on Oyster PAYG. You'll be able to have your Young
Persons, Disabled Persons, HM Forces or Senior Railcard loaded onto your
Oyster card (no details how) and from then on the off-peak fares cap for
you will be around a third lower than normal (e.g. £3.10 vs £4.80 for
Zones 1-2). There doesn't appear to be a discount on peak caps or single
journeys."

http://londonconnections.blogspot.co...discounts-on-o...

Does anyone know how this loading process will be done? Will you be able
to waltz into any LU ticket office and do it? When does this start,
beginning of 2008?
--
Michael Hoffman


This is also mentioned in he new TfL fares booklet for 2008, available
nowon the TfL website.

There's a recent thread about this - "Oystercard capping for railcard
holders" - on uk.railway. Unfortunately it never got crossposted to
utl. It can be read here...

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....4564387cdcead/


Details about exactly how it will all work (or not!) are sketchy, so
perhaps it's just a case of wait and see. It'll be interesting to see
if London Overground ticket offices will be able to load the discount
on to an Oyster card (I'd take it as a given that this will not be
possible at "Oyster Ticket Stops" aka newsagents).

For reasons I explain in the aforementioned thread, I'd expect that a
registered Oyster card will be necessary to take advantage of this.