On 29 Jan, 19:42, Paul Speller wrote:
I'm at the end of my tether with my local train operating company,
Southeastern Railway (SER hereafter).

They only took over the franchise 9 months ago but they signed up to it
just before the government decided that all future franchises would
mandate acceptance of Oyster PAYG, which basically means that if SER
won't adopt Oyster voluntarily, they won't be legally compelled to for
something like ten years! (As if we didn't suffer enough through the
Connex years...)



Interestingly, their magazine/leaflet thing, published recently,
mentions the zonal fares adoption as 'aiding the future introduction
of Oyster'.