"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in message
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Richard M Willis wrote:

Did I hear somewhere that when SilverLink's franchise on the
NLL / WatfordDC comes up for renewal, they'll be mandated to
accept Oyster PrePay ?

It seems quite likely.

Of course this is going to make a lot of PrePay calculations a lot
harder to work out because of trips that can be done both through
Zone 1 and bypassing it (e.g. Barking to Richmond - I think the
GOBLIN, and for that matter the Clapham Junction-Willesden Junction
line are coming in as well)...

Not entirely sure on that.
There was a discussion related to this very recently either in here or
in uk.railway, and for some journies that can (but don't necessarily
require) travel through/via zone1, tfl have set a fare that would be
charged by a ticket machine, and one would reasonably expect pre-pay
to follow the same rules. The fare set in some cases assumes travel
via zone 1 and in other cases assumes travel without going via zone 1.