"TKD" wrote in message
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As I see it the TOCs are wary of Pre Pay for business reasons, and
given the current business structure of the railways it shouldn't
surprise anyone that they look at things from this perspective.

From: http://www.alwaystouchout.com/project/66

"The DfT recently specified that TfL's zonal fares must be rolled out to
all rail services within London by 2007, with a phased approach being
taken to achieve this with an individual train company at a time."


And this is taken from tfl's latest board meeting minutes last month:

TfL's proposal to further integrate Oyster pre-pay on the National Rail
Network has
been subject to continuing negotiations with Train Operating Companies (TOC's)
and
DfT. The work is not on schedule and implementation in 2007 is no longer
achievable.

Looks like we could be in for a long wait.