In message , Neil Williams
writes

I'd say there's a difference between relatively infrequent (e.g. me -
I go to London about once a month, and I would consider an Oyster card
if I didn't normally travel there on an outboundary ODTC) and very
infrequent (e.g. someone who perhaps visits once every 6 months).

To the latter, they probably just want to get a single from the ticket
machine. They may not even understand what Oyster is - some don't
understand what a ODTC is! They certainly won't want to join a
typically long ticket office queue to obtain an Oystercard and top it
up, nor to pay a gbp3 deposit on a card.

But surely the main reason is that they won't want to buy an Oystercard
when it cannot be used on most National Railway lines? What would be the
point for anyone who has to use National Rail for their infrequent
journeys?

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Paul Terry