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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.
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 ...
The Oyster card, the first major implementation of fare capping, uses MIFARE smart cards with proprietary programming, with equipment connected to proprietary back-office systems. The Oyster card began to support fare capping in 2005, 7 years after the system's initial design began in 1998. [15]
TfL says it will reopen applications in phases and will look to refund customers who have overpaid.
Dartford railway station gained a lot of attention due to the high numbers of people travelling using this line, mistakenly not knowing that Oyster cards were not valid, and there was evidence of being approached by staff and receiving penalty fares. [8]
The Oyster card system was originally created and maintained via a PFI contract known as 'Prestige' between TfL and TranSys. TranSys was responsible for developing, installing, managing and maintaining London's automated fare collection system including the Oyster card system, on behalf of TfL.
Whether you have a working card or not, you are still responsible for the terms of your credit card account. This means you will still be responsible for making monthly payments on any balances ...
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]