On Jun 9, 9:46*am, "Nick P"
wrote:

"collybs" wrote:

The National Rail Website says the following:

Oyster Card 'Pay as you go' will be accepted on National Rail journeys
in Greater London.

I would therefore say that iy is all of National Rail.


Can anybody say if Chingford has Oyster readers or not?
NEAX website they will be installed by Spring 2008, TfL website map says no
Oyster availability there yet. Considering it is only 4 stops from
Walthamstow Central on an isolated line it would make some sense to have it
there but we are talking about rail firms here.

Think I will print out and take the TfL page saying Oyster can be used on
NR, just in case....

If any Oyster readers have been installed at Chingford, they will
*not* be available for public use yet - they will likely be covered up
and turned off. Oyster PAYG has not gone live across the National Rail
network in London - this is now not expected to happen until some time
next year, i.e. 2010.

Oyster PAYG being accepted on NR during the strike days is a bit of a
misnomer - in essence if you have an Oyster card you will simply be
waved through.

There is a question mark about what will happen on routes where Oyster
PAYG is accepted for only part of the route - e.g. the Chingford
branch and the other NXEA branches in NE London are an example - if
the passenger uses their Oyster card at only one end of the journey,
i.e. at Liverpool Street, and whether this would incur the £4 charge
for an unresolved journey (actually a higher £5 charge applies from
the relevant London termini stations).

How this will be dealt with is unclear - it's possible that TfL will
do a mass refund of erroneously applied charges after the strike,
which would be automatically applied as much as possible. I think
there could be another possible solution to this as well, but as we
don't know how this will be dealt with so it's all just speculation at
the moment.

Perhaps the best way of avoiding this issue is to try and avoid using
the automatic gates at Liverpool Street and go through the side gate
instead. This of course depends upon how things are done on the day at
Liverpool Street, and whether staff allow you through the side gates
when simply brandishing an Oyster card.