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Oyster cards can hold period tickets, travel permits and, most commonly, credit for travel ("Pay as you go"), which must be added to the card before travel. Passengers touch it on an electronic reader when entering, and in some cases when leaving, the transport system in order to validate it, and where relevant, deduct funds from the stored credit.
The Oyster card supports a maximum of 15 zones. [4] The London pay-as-you-go system continues beyond the zones. Due to technical limitations with Oyster cards, they are not valid and only contactless payment cards may be used. Contactless-only PAYG is valid out to Luton Airport Parkway, Welwyn Garden City, High Wycombe and Reading.
A Travelcard season ticket can be sold by National Rail retailers and loaded into National Rail smart cards. As of 2022, an inboundary Travelcard season ticket (one valid within the numbered zones only) is sold on smart cards only, which include Oyster card (if sold by TfL) and National Rail ITSO smart cards (if sold by National Rail ...
Fare zone 3 is an inner zone of Transport for London's zonal fare system used for calculating the price of tickets for travel on the London Underground, London Overground, Docklands Light Railway [1] and, since 2007, on National Rail services. [2]
The first large scale adoption of smartcards for transport in Great Britain was by Transport for London (TfL) with the Oyster card. [6] It was initially only available on TfL services, but it has been progressively rolled out to National Rail services in and around Greater London. ITSO cards can also now be used on Oyster card readers. [7]
The price cap for Oyster card users was set at the price of an equivalent one-day, unlimited-ride Travelcard. [7] TfL has expanded its fare capping system since its introduction, adding 7-day caps and contactless bank card support in 2014. [3]: 11 Another early implementation of fare capping in Europe is in Dublin, starting in 2012.
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All stations accepting Oyster card but outside the publicised fare zones (except Stratford International) are put into secret zones, which are numbered 9 to 14, for the purpose of calculating caps. [3] In addition, there are stations which are further out accepting contactless payment cards but not Oyster cards.