In message of Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:36:51 in
uk.railway, Roland Perry writes
In message , at 09:20:29 on Fri, 2
Mar 2012, Walter Briscoe remarked:
Neither Marlow nor Maidenhead is in the Oyster area.
I trust Crossrail will alter that for those who live so long.

Wonkypedia says it will, but without any citations to back it up.

Another reason why specifying Reading as the initial western terminus
might have been a "touch too far".

Oyster is already being extended to Shenfield as part of the new AGA
franchise. It's not on the map yet (stops at Harold Wood).

ISTR it WAS scheduled to start last month.

On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:42:10 in , Customer Relations contactcentre@grea
teranglia.co.uk wrote
·******** Regarding the extension to Oyster pay as you go stations, I
can confirm we are planning to go ahead with these extensions. However,
we do not have a confirmed date, hopefully this will begin in January
2013.

ISTR I had to fill in a form, rather than send them an email.
They do the common unhelpful thing of not returning a copy of my words.
--
Walter Briscoe