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I don't think so. TfL fare revision page says "Later in January, pay as you go (with a contactless payment or Oyster card) will be accepted for travel to Gatwick Airport."

On brfares.com there are numerous Southern & SWT Advance fares. They exist from some suburban London SWT stations such as Surbiton, Wimbledon, Raynes Park, Thames Ditton and Hampton Court to Southern south coast stations between Ford and Glynde including Littlehampton, Worthing, Preston Park...

The EOI for the SW franchise came out a day before a bidders day for the franchise competition. There is a bidders day for the West Midlands franchise competition on the 10th, so on the same basis as being the day before the EOI may be out on Wednesday.

It's very clear from recent franchise agreements and ITTs that DfT expects Advance tickets to be used to smooth demand across train services. With DfT putting a clause in franchise agreements that capacity planning provides passengers with a reasonable expectation of a seat on off-peak services...

This is a worrying comment in ORR's latest NR Monitoring Report published last week.

According to the Written Ministerial Statement they will recruit extra drivers, conductors, revenue protection staff and employ more apprentices.

So the only reason to buy online from VTEC now is for the half price super off-peak single.

VTEC have a HST at Craigentinney that doesn't enter service until 0930. Maintenance, pathing and roster schedules permitting they could start this back from somewhere north of Edinburgh. Unfortunately, looking at RTT, the 0930 becomes timed for a 225 in the timetable change so it could only be...

Or more likely 3. No 10 didn't want, what they view as a positive rail news story for the North, being crowded out by the anticipated negative news stories on the annual fares increase.

No, but the branding must include the words Northern or North.

Unless you work for Abellio's bid team or the Rail Executive I very much doubt you have.

More briefing by the incumbents on the new rail franchise. I don't recall any previous franchise award where the incumbent has briefed so much on what will happen in the new franchise just about to be awarded before...

You should have a reasonable expectation of a seat 20 minutes after boarding on a peak service.... at least that's what the franchise agreement requires GTR to design their train plan around.... Good luck with that.

It's got space for 5 ticket types as I found out to my cost when it wouldn't load the ticket I had bought because the card was full. Why it doesn't mark a slot as being available to be overwritten when the ticket has been used is beyond me. It's such a pain to have to go to the travel shop to...

Yes, but some forum members have reported that it occassionally is not being recognised by bus validators. You'll need an alternative method of paying for the Z1 fare. Agreed. The default fare is via zone 1 so I suppose it wouldn't be accepted as it be trying to charge a Z1 fare which it...

GNWR have now applied to convert the contingent rights between Queens Park and Euston to firm rights. They say the HS2 timetable working group has shown the services can be accommodated.

The Pop PAYG product seems to hold a cash balance and calculate caps as you travel. It deducts the maximum fare on entry and adjusts the fare charged on exit.

What do you mean by that?

Lets just wait for the details. If, for example, its the same as C2C's scheme at 3p a minute then it won't be anything to shout home about.

This is not news. A smartcard across the North was announced in July's Budget. IIRC TfL took full ownership of Oyster in 2010.