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Only a year late: Oyster finally introduce fare-capping from 27 Feb (link downloads PDF of guide to fare capping). Hurrah.

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That's kinda cool. And I never realised you could do the pre-pay thing for oyster cards. Since, as far as I can see, they have no expiry it might be worth buying one of those even though I am not that much of a regulaar london transport user.

Cool. :)

Annoyingly, though, you still don't seem to be able to put a day zone 1-2 travelcard on an Oyseter card. And I can't use pre-pay on National Rail services out of Victoria. Which means that if I (say) want to go to visit

katyha in Wandsworth via the Wandsworth Common station, then I tend to end up buying a single from Victoria to Clapham Junction at the Victoria end, and a single from Wandsworth Common to Victoria at the Wandsworth Common end, even if I end up doing enough travelling in Zone 1 to warrant a zone 1-2 travelcard (I have a yearly 2-3 travelcard on my Oyster card).

Heh. Just after I get an annual 1-3 travelcard, then. Sod's law.

Yes! I saw a poster to this effect on Saturday.

Now if National Rail would just hurry up and get themselves into the scheme...(says this frequent Surbiton visitor.)

I wonder if I could cheekily ask them for a rebate on my past years worth of journeys where the single trips went well over a travelcard..

Excellent! And I should bloody well think so too!

I hasn't realised that they didn't already have fare-capping. Good job I've only used my oyster card when I've only done one journey that day. I wish I could use it for tickets to London from Guildford as the queues at the train station really put me off ever going into London. It shouldn't take half an hour to buy a ticket for a half hour journey. I've even seen queues twenty or thirty people long at the ticket machine mid-morning at the weekend.

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