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Platform 13 at Paddington has now been closed and the track lifted in preparation for it to be rebuilt as an extension to Platform 12.

The SWT Smart ITSO smartcard scheme has been expanded to cover the gap between its coverage area and the London Zones. http://swtsmart.co.uk/ The new lines covered are: Staines to Ashford Shepperton to Kempton Park Weybridge and West Byfleet to Virginia Water Earley to...

Mentioned in the West Midlands ITT is this suggestion:

Keygo is set to expand to cover Thameslink up to Bedford and Great Northern as far as Huntingdon this autumn. There are also plans to expand its coverage to all TfL services. ITSO Newsletter

Station departure boards, including the staff displays, are now available for many stations (mostly London Midland) at http://iris2.rail.co.uk/tiger/

The Virgin TVMs at Birmingham International are now offering Nectar points if you insert a Nectar card after payment. I'm not sure if they are offering this anywhere else.

Abellio Greater Anglia have announced details of their initial Smartcard offering. Initally it will cover monthly and annual season tickets between Liverpool Street and Cambridge (except Stansted Airport), and between Liverpool Street and Prittlewell.

Virgin have announced that they will be extending m-tickets to all of their network for all ticket types. The timescale"]timescale is:

The EMT ticket machines at St Pancras now accept all Stagecoach Smart cards (formerly they didn't accept SWT or bus cards) However they now only offer tickets to TSGN destinations outside London (and Thameslink core stations), so even with the EMT card tickets the only destinations that...

It looks like the back office version of Oyster won't be implemented until at least 2018. The remaining phases of TfLs's Future Ticketing Programme are: The December 2015 TfL board papers contained this update: which suggest that Phase 4 would be implemented in 2018 or 2019.

Masabi, the company behind mtickets have put together an availability map Coverage is now fairly extensive across the network, stretching to Penzance and Inverness, and many walkup tickets are now available.

Season tickets to London Terminals are now available for stations between Rowlands Castle and Farncombe. The area of coverage for the card has increased to cover the line between Woking and Esher, and also Honiton to Pinhoe. Stagecoach Bus tickets can now be loaded onto the SWT card. Updated map.

The TVMs at Harrow & Wealdstone now have an option on the front screen to "Pay with Oyster Card." It's grayed out with a red cross through it. I recall that this was available from London Underground TVM before Pay As You Go was introduced.

Swiftcard Pay As You Go is now accepted for single, return and day nBus tickets on most bus operators in the West Midands. The notable exceptions are National Express (who have a seperate e-Daysaver Swiftcard), and Stagecoach.

The back office version of Oyster will be delayed until 2017. Transport Committee – 18 March 2015

ITSO cards can now be read at London Underground POMs. The top of the screen lists the journey history. Underneath this is a section for products valid in the TfL area. The product details are undecoded so not very useful at present. The bottom states whether the card holds products valid...

Chiltern Railways are apparently to trial contactless EMV cards between Bicester and Oxford. From LinkedIn:

Southern Keygo has just expanded its coverage. It's now valid on trains between Warblington, Epsom, Merstham and Bexhill, and Metrobus or Brighton & Hove Buses within the local areas of: Brighton, Hove, Falmer, Shoreham & Southwick Burgess Hill Crawley, Gatwick Airport, Horley, Ifield &...

According to the London Midland website, the Key Smartcard is now valid at Birmingham New Street. The extra validity is Droitwich Spa to Birmingham New Street (not at Bromsgrove or University) and Smethwick Galton Bridge to Birmingham New Street.

SWT have finally published a map showing coverage of their Stagecoach Smart card. It shows coverage from Staines and Woking to Windsor & Eton Riverside and Wokingham, Alton, Havant, Honiton, Lymington Pier and Weymouth; Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin.