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Roland Perry · February 6th 14, 07:49 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 20:07:21
on Wed, 5 Feb 2014, remarked:

How are they going to deal with registering railcards on Oyster cards then?

It would not be unprecedented for them to 'discover' at the last minute
that it can't be done, and withdraw the facility. Or produce a
completely new scheme that doesn't have the "loading" step.

My daughter has a 16-25 card loaded on her Oyster, but there's also a
"18+ Student Oyster" (not very useful for someone living in Z2). It
might be simpler for TfL to require *National Rail* to issue some 16-25
Railcards on a newly invented "16-25 Oyster" (rather than a bit of
card).

More fuss for travellers (because the issuing facilities might be
restricted to the London area), but a typical "two steps forward, one
step back" process 'it were the technology wot made us do it'.
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Roland Perry