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Season tickets are now available to Fenchurch Street on the C2Csmart ITSO card. Travelcards are now due to follow in November. http://www.c2c-online.co.uk/tickets-and-fares/smart-card/index

I just got an Epsom (Southern Only) + Z1-6 Travelcard on my Southern Key ITSO card. It seems to operate tube gates as fast as Oyster, and the journey history shows up on the web page within half an hour, rather than next day for Oyster.

In the East Midlands Trains franchise agreement, it mentions that EMT are required to trial flexible ITSO ticketing. Does anyone know if this has happened or will happen?

What do people think?

National Express West Midlands have finally launched their version of the Centro Swiftcard. At the moment it's only available as a seperate card to the existing Swiftcard, holding 5, 10 or 15 Daysavers, covering either Coventry or the whole of the operating area.

There are calls from the newly set-up Ebbsfleet Urban Development Corporation to extend Oyster coverage to Ebbsfleet. In the Standard,

Solent Go is another new smartcard scheme. Buses and ferries only at the moment, but availability on rail is promised for the future.

Southern are to introduce their version of PAYG to The Key, but the card must be registered to auto-topup. https://www.southernrailway.com/smart-card/

National Express Essex Thameside are to roll out contactless payment cards across their network by 2017. http://www.c2c-online.co.uk/Breaking-News

According to these links, the RH&DR accepts some ITSO cards. Do they have any readers at their stations?

C2C Smart is to be launched between West Horndon, Tilbury Town and Shoeburyness from 16th June, and the remainder of the c2c network including Travelcards from 13th October. http://www.c2c-online.co.uk/tickets-and-fares/smart-card/index

According to a poster at Gatwick Airport, the Key (Southern's smartcard) is now valid on First Great Western trains between Gatwick Airport and Dorking (Deepdene)

Southern have now introduced The Key between Dorking and Epsom. They are also seeking to introduce it on First Great Western between Reigate and Dorking.

Here is a list of ticket gate error codes, both National Rail and TfL, updated for contactless payment cards.

A new Oyster Travelcard extension menu is being rolled out to LUL TVMs. Once an Oystercard has been touched, it presents a list of stations. It then either states that the station is covered by the Travelcard, or that PAYG can be used, with an option to top up. There are two exceptions...

Southern are trialling flexible season tickets - initially only for journeys from Brighton, Haywards Heath and Horsham to London Victoria. http://www.southernrailway.com/tickets-and-fares/ticket-types/FlexiSeason

C2C seem to have bucked the trend for bizarre brands for smartcards. Their brand will be "c2c smart"

Does anyone have any opinions as to whether the following would be i) valid and ii) accepted? Using an Oystercard loaded with a Z1-6 Travelcard and a Southern Key card with a return from Coulsdon South to Gatwick Airport, on the Gatwick Express?

There are posters up at Farringdon advising that it is now a London Terminal. but only for tickets marked "Plus High Speed"....

King's Cross Square is now open. From the Standard: