On Jul 2, 9:47*pm, Andrew Cullen wrote:

On 2 July, 01:10, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:

The displays on the gateline at St Pancras High Level have now been
changed to state "ITSO/Tickets" instead of "Oyster/Tickets" as they
previously did. Whether they actually now accept ITSO cards is hard to
check without one.
(They have always rejected Oyster cards previously, even when FCC
trains are running from the high level platforms.)

I think this is the first gateline mentioning ITSO acceptance.

EMT gatelines at St Pancras and Derby have ITSO readers, EMT had a
franchise committment to introduce smartcard season tickets, there are
also smartcard gate passes issued to certain people. Oyster was meant
to be updated to ITSO technology but it doesn't appear to be
happening. I believe its a similar situation at SWT.

The plan in London was for validators to be able to handle both ITSO
and Oyster cards - there has never been a plan to replace the current
MiFare standard Oyster cards with ITSO standard ones. Given the usage
of the high-level platforms by FCC trains, the gates there should
handle Oyster cards - Matthew's experience (as he recounts above) is
that they don't.