In article , (Chris) wrote:

"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.

Even then it doesn't change things for those of us outside London.

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Colin Rosenstiel