Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
The ability to add the Railcard and thus the railcard capping discount
to your Oyster has been around since 2008 and I got my sister to try it
early that year. She got it done at King's Cross with no problem. Since
she needs to carry the Railcard anyway for her trips to London there
was no additional complication though now she has a English bus pass
she doesn't use her Oyster much in London.

FWIW I looked at this in 2009ish, but I first would have had to register my
Oyster card before I could then add my 16-25 Railcard on top. Since I don't
live in London, and mostly use PAYG without reaching my daily cap, I decided
there wasn't much to be gained.

In addition, paper travelcards (eg those bought with my train ticket to
London) avoid all the issues with touching in/out not recording station
interchanges correctly (and charging penalties) that have been much
discussed here in the recent past.

Theo

Theo Markettos wrote:
In addition, paper travelcards (eg those bought with my train ticket to
London) avoid all the issues with touching in/out not recording station
interchanges correctly (and charging penalties) that have been much
discussed here in the recent past.

PS: Hayley, you might wish to read this thread via:
https://groups.google.com/group/uk.t...8f72ec9b7b836?
as LondonBanter is a pretty broken interface for reading Usenet groups.

Theo

In article ,
Theo Markettos wrote:
Theo Markettos wrote:
In addition, paper travelcards (eg those bought with my train ticket to
London) avoid all the issues with touching in/out not recording station
interchanges correctly (and charging penalties) that have been much
discussed here in the recent past.

PS: Hayley, you might wish to read this thread via:
https://groups.google.com/group/uk.t...8f72ec9b7b836?
as LondonBanter is a pretty broken interface for reading Usenet groups.

Londonbanter and all the other *banter web interfaces are being filtered
out by individual.net now, as well.

Nick
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"Nick Leverton" wrote in message ...

PS: Hayley, you might wish to read this thread via:
https://groups.google.com/group/uk.t...8f72ec9b7b836?
as LondonBanter is a pretty broken interface for reading Usenet groups.

Londonbanter and all the other *banter web interfaces are being filtered
out by individual.net now, as well.

Are they? I'm using news.individual.net and I saw the original post.

Peter Smyth

In article ,
Peter Smyth wrote:
"Nick Leverton" wrote in message ...

PS: Hayley, you might wish to read this thread via:
https://groups.google.com/group/uk.t...8f72ec9b7b836?
as LondonBanter is a pretty broken interface for reading Usenet groups.

Londonbanter and all the other *banter web interfaces are being filtered
out by individual.net now, as well.

Are they? I'm using news.individual.net and I saw the original post.

Oh that's strange then. I've been meaning to investigate the *banter
thread gaps for a week, since I first noticed them. I'll look more
deeply into it in that case, thanks.

Nick
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"The Internet, a sort of ersatz counterfeit of real life"
-- Janet Street-Porter, BBC2, 19th March 1996

On Sun, 15 May 2011 21:01:18 +0100, Peter Smyth wrote:

Londonbanter and all the other *banter web interfaces are being filtered
out by individual.net now, as well.

Are they? I'm using news.individual.net and I saw the original post.

Mee to

--
jhk

In article ,
(Theo Markettos) wrote:

Michael R N Dolbear wrote:
The ability to add the Railcard and thus the railcard capping discount
to your Oyster has been around since 2008 and I got my sister to try
it early that year. She got it done at King's Cross with no problem.
Since she needs to carry the Railcard anyway for her trips to London
there was no additional complication though now she has a English bus
pass she doesn't use her Oyster much in London.

FWIW I looked at this in 2009ish, but I first would have had to register
my Oyster card before I could then add my 16-25 Railcard on top. Since
I don't live in London, and mostly use PAYG without reaching my daily
cap, I decided there wasn't much to be gained.

In addition, paper travelcards (eg those bought with my train ticket to
London) avoid all the issues with touching in/out not recording station
interchanges correctly (and charging penalties) that have been much
discussed here in the recent past.

You need to register it now then. Otherwise you won't get the discounts on
individual fares that have applied since January (and last year to NR
fares in Greater London).

--
Colin Rosenstiel

wrote:
You need to register it now then. Otherwise you won't get the discounts on
individual fares that have applied since January (and last year to NR
fares in Greater London).

Ah. I didn't realise there were discounts on point-point tube/bus fares. I
almost never use National Rail in Greater London (other than travel beyond
the zones), so haven't bothered with that.

Theo

In article ,
(Theo Markettos) wrote:

wrote:
You need to register it now then. Otherwise you won't get the
discounts on individual fares that have applied since January
(and last year to NR fares in Greater London).

Ah. I didn't realise there were discounts on point-point tube/bus
fares. I almost never use National Rail in Greater London (other than
travel beyond the zones), so haven't bothered with that.

If you're travelling from Cambridge like me and only making a couple of
zones 1 and 2 off-peak journeys you're being ripped off if you buy an
Off-Peak Day Travelcard. OTOH a Super Off-Peak Day Travelcard is good
value.

--
Colin Rosenstiel