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    TFW introduces Pay As You Go in South East Wales

    Ironically TfW accept GWR PAYG Touch cards on their services between Cheltenham and Gloucester (which also call at Cardiff, Newport and Pontyclun)
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    Pay as you go for Manchester and Birmingham

    GWR have made provision for this in their T&Cs.
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    GWR PAYG

    The Danish solution is to set a flag on the card at TVMs for inter-regional journeys. The initial charge is 70 DKR (about £8) for local journeys and 600 DKR (about £70) for long distance journeys. https://www.rejsekort.dk/Hjaelp/Saadan-rejser-du
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    Project Oval: TfL win DfT contract to expand contactless system to 233 rail stations by May 2024, Railcards coming to contactless payment cards

    It will be interesting to see if any of the long distance TOCs implement the Contactless Transit Model 3, where touchs in and out are matched to prepurchased tickets. https://passenger.tech/news/understanding-uk-cards-association-contactless-transit-models/
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    Project Oval: How can the expansion of contactless be properly covered by better maps in the London & SouthEast area?

    The Great Western branches aren't shown on the map even though they now accept contactless.
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    Pumpkin Sheffield closed

    Pret do have franchises in petrol stations.
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    What’s the Cheapest Way of Getting Out of Heathrow To Hayes & Harlington by train?

    Those bus stops have been closed for years due to a weak roadway at the entrance.
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    What is this ticket?

    £55.10 is the new single fare, as LNER are removing most of their return tickets from the 11th June. A return journey will be £110.20 as against £105.90 currently.
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    Luton Airport DART ticketing discussion

    KeyGo is accepted, and ITSO singles and returns are available from the Thameslink TVMs at Parkway and inside the airport terminal.
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    GW Mainline tickets for Freedom Card holder

    It's a 2 hour video. At which point is this mentioned?
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    Verifying details of singles and returns loaded onto an ITSO card

    London Underground TVMs show what has been loaded onto ITSO cards
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    TfL to scrap paper tickets

    I did say "most" not "all"....
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    TfL to scrap paper tickets

    The extension of contactless acceptance should eventually cover most of the out-boundary One Day Travelcards.
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    TfL to scrap paper tickets

    TfL have wanted to decommission the magnetic card reader on gates for a long time. After they have stopped issuing their own tickets, and at least some gates on each gateline were fitted with barcode readers, they would be able to stop accepting National Rail magnetic tickets.
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    TfL to scrap paper tickets

    It's in the first slide shown, under '2023'.

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