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C2C are to trial smartcards. From the DfT website: --- old post above --- --- new post below --- And there is now a map of the full extent of SEFT on page 2 of the ITSO September 2013 newsletter.

A few areas of progress in the ITSO world: The relatively new ticket collection machines at London Victoria (Southern) have now had ITSO pads added. The new TVMs on the Tyne & Wear Metro can read Go North East Key cards and StagecoachSmart Bus cards. National Express West Midlands...

Can anyone see anything wrong with using a LM Super off peak ticket from Harrow & Wealdstone to Blake Street to travel from Harrow & Wealdstone to Lichfield Trent Valley via Tamworth?

I've just got a new Android phone with an NFC reader. There are a few ITSO reader apps in the app store. Masabi Yorcard and ECEBS ECEBS seems to be the best one, showing everything on the cards, including a return ticket I loaded onto my SWT StagecoachSmart card at an SWT...

I have a Zone 1-6 Annual Travelcard purchased at London Marylebone on my Oystercard. When I use it to travel to Moor Street at weekends, what is my ticket for NRCOC purposes?: a) my Gold Record card, which has NOT VALID FOR TRAVEL printed on it, or b) my Oyster card, which isn't...

Centro have released their version of TfL's Oystercard From their website, It's valid on buses only at the moment but I believe there are plans to extend it to trains and the metro.

Masabi have released an app for NFC-enabled Android phones. From Masabi's website It only reads the card number and any ticket numbers at the moment, but hopefully live apps should enable ITSO card loading from smartphones.

From the Southern website The map shows coverage has been extended to Horley and Ifield from Preston Park and Lewes. However, intermediate stations between Three Bridges and Preston Park and Lewes are not currently covered. There's no mention of whether or not FCC will accept it...

From the Southern website, This covers Crawley and Brighton and is part of the wider rollout,

There seems to be very little information available about the area that it will cover , or what products will be offered. The most I have found is at House of Commons - Uncorrected Evidence where it is stated that: "the so-called south-east flexible ticketing programme in particular...

A website devoted to British Rail's corporate identity manual http://www.doublearrow.co.uk/home.htm

If anyone lives near Liverpool they can join a trial of the Walrus card. (Previous thread on Walrus: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=52466 ) Unfortunately I live a few hundred miles away..

Southern are to extend their "The Key" smartcard to Worthing this month. See http://www.journeysolutions.com/sites/default/files/pictures/John%20Backway%20presentation.pdf It doesn't mention availability on other operators services such as First Great Western.

It looks like Southern are extending their ITSO smartcard trial. At present it covers stations between Brighton and Seaford. Page 10 of http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/0C090F92-3CA8-4991-87F0-1E2869C95F8C/0/lstf_travel_choices_lewes.pdf says that Southern intend to extend it to...

Some interesting material related to Oyster acceptance on Heathrow and Gatwick Express. http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/oyster_pay_as_you_go_on_heathrow Seperate zones would have been set up for each line, probably without any caps. Ultimately BAA decided not to proceed.

East Midland Trains have now activated the ITSO pads and menus on their ticket machines at St Pancras. I did try my ITSO cards, but they eventually returned an error message of "not personalised". The ITSO pads on the machines take much longer to respond than Oystercard pads, which I can...