Can I use an Oyster Card on any National Rail station within the Travel
Card zones?

I would like to get a pre Pay version but there is no reader at my home
station, Grove Park. There are readers at London Bridge when you alight
.. I often go up to Northumberland Park which also have no readers.
What would happen if I scanned the Oyster at London bridge and then
Liverpool Street on the way to Northumberland Park. Get off, do Spurs,
come back and rescan the card when I get back to Liverpool Street on the
way home.

Oyster just seems a sham if the cards can not be used at the majority of
London national rail stations.

James Looker wrote:
Can I use an Oyster Card on any National Rail station within the Travel
Card zones?

I would like to get a pre Pay version but there is no reader at my home
station, Grove Park. There are readers at London Bridge when you alight
. I often go up to Northumberland Park which also have no readers. What
would happen if I scanned the Oyster at London bridge and then Liverpool
Street on the way to Northumberland Park. Get off, do Spurs, come back
and rescan the card when I get back to Liverpool Street on the way home.

Oyster just seems a sham if the cards can not be used at the majority of
London national rail stations.

Nevermind I have found the answer.

Oyster appears usless to almost anyone who does not live near a tube
station, so most of S London then.

Can I use an Oyster Card on any National Rail station within the Travel
Card zones?
As you probably discovered, only for season tickets and on some (short)
routes where validators have been provided at start and end -
http://www.oystercard.com/buy_1_4.php#7 for prepay.

Oyster just seems a sham if the cards can not be used at the majority of
London national rail stations.
I guess it's down to TfL and NR getting together to provide validators at
the stations to enable pre-pay, more to the point, who should pay to "make
it happen". I'm sure it'll come, but it could be a long time off. NR should
see the advantage of cut queues at booking offices and having to get paper
annual tickets exchanged every couple of months when they become unreadable
or won't work the barriers.

Cheers,
Dave

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 22:19:46 +0000, James Looker
wrote:

James Looker wrote:
Can I use an Oyster Card on any National Rail station within the Travel
Card zones?

I would like to get a pre Pay version but there is no reader at my home
station, Grove Park. There are readers at London Bridge when you alight
. I often go up to Northumberland Park which also have no readers. What
would happen if I scanned the Oyster at London bridge and then Liverpool
Street on the way to Northumberland Park. Get off, do Spurs, come back
and rescan the card when I get back to Liverpool Street on the way home.

Oyster just seems a sham if the cards can not be used at the majority of
London national rail stations.

Nevermind I have found the answer.

Oyster appears usless to almost anyone who does not live near a tube
station, so most of S London then.

Oyster per se, isn't useless, just the Pre-Pay version for non-tube
people

An Oyster with a Period Travelcard on it, would work fine though.

--
Cheers,

Jason.

Since Network Rail is just a 'landlord' there is nothing in it for
them. Train operating companies will only do it if they see a
commercial advantage - or if it is made a condition of future franchise
renewals.

Train operating companies will only do it if they see a commercial
advantage - or if it is made a condition of future franchise renewals.

Same objective as TfL had with Oyster, reduced ticketing costs through less
booking office staff. Less administration, the customer does all the work.
Doing it for NR on seasons would be dead easy, you don't even need any pads
at the NR stations, they're only needed for prepay now all the tube has been
done. I'm sure it'll come.