London Connections

During today's Oyster failure, TfL put out a press release that includes the first hint of what the problem is: This problem, like the...

Barclaycard's Onepulse combined Oyster/credit card also has a third function, " cashless ", that allows you to pay for items b...

TfL held its first board meeting since the Mayoral election last week, and the papers are online . Highlights: Oyster PAYG on National Rail ...

Since coming to power, Boris Johnson has taken part in two Mayor's Question time sessions. You can read his written answers here and he...

The Mayor has announced that First Great Western will be the fifth train company to roll out Oyster on all its London services: Thousands m...

An anonymous tipster points me to this set of London Travelwatch minutes, which say: Meeting with First Great Western (FGW) and Passenger ...

Ticket gates are now being installed at Paddington station to wall off most of the suburban platforms and resolve the lack of full gating on...

London Travelwatch have posted minutes from a meeting where TfL discussed how Oyster PAYG is working out on London Overground, and related ...

I've already posted separately about ELL Phase 2 , the Southern franchise takeover and Shepherd's Bush Overground but there are a ...

The notes from this month's TfL board meeting have been published. A few things of note: TfL have started ordering Oyster equipment for...

Another new thing in the fares leaflet is the availability of Railcard discounted fares caps on Oyster PAYG. You'll be able to have your...

The new fares leaflet is on tube station leaflet racks everywhere, though not yet online. It confirms the new National Rail route sections w...

Transport for London held a board meeting on Wednesday, and today they published the stack of documents (5 MB PDF) produced for it. A skim ...

A couple of photos of new things: The first is of one of the covered Oyster readers appearing on Silverlink Metro platforms. This is much pr...

The Barclaycard Onepulse credit card is now available . It has a built-in Oyster card, but there appears to be no connection between it and ...

In preparation for the handover to London Overground, ticket machines have been appearing at stations along the Gospel Oak to Barking Line. ...

Barclays have announced a name and launch date their combined credit and Oyster card. It will be named OnePulse and be available from Septem...

The minutes from TfL's June 27 board meeting have been published. Of note: The Hackney Downs - Hackney Central interchange looks to be ...