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Oyster card vending machine, installed at London Bridge station in December 2006. All machines of this design have been phased out. Oyster cards can be purchased from a number of different outlets in the London area: Ticket machines at London Underground stations, which accept banknotes, coins, and credit and debit cards.
London Underground and Docklands Light Railway use Transport for London's Travelcard zones to calculate fares, including fares on the Underground only. Travelcard Zone 1 is the most central, encompassing an area mainly bounded by the London Terminals and the Circle line, while Travelcard Zone 6 is the most outlying zone within the Greater London boundaries.
At the conclusion of its 2-year trial, the Tripperpas system was shut down, with only 4,000 cards in use, of the 11,000 cards planned to be issued. [5] The fare capping feature was not advertised well, and some passengers believed that fares would actually be higher than the single-ride Strippenkaart tickets that the system sought to replace. [ 4 ]
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]
Fare zones 7–9 are ancillary zones of the Travelcard and Oyster card fares scheme managed by Transport for London, used for calculating fares from some stations outside Greater London that are not in zones 4, 5 and 6. Travelcards are available on Oyster with validity in these zones. They are not included in the validity of National Rail out ...
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 ...
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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.