On May 7, 1:03*am, Tangent wrote:

On 10 Mar, 08:40, Rupert Candy
wrote:

On the Down platform next to the PERTIS machine (Brixton has no
proper ticket machine). A sign that Southeastern and Boris have
reached some sort of agreement?

In the past couple of days, several of the stations on the Hayes Line
have just had readers installed - if the money's being spent on
infrastructure, then full implementation can only be a few months away.

Oyster PAYG on NR is coming eventually, no doubt, but I wouldn't get
too excited about it's imminent arrival just yet - some Southern
stations have had standalone Oyster readers at the ready, but
crucially *not* in use, since September 2008 (if not earlier).

I've seen some talk that it'll be 2010 before NR accepts Oyster PAYG
across all routes in London. It seems unlikely that individual TOCs
will go ahead and accept Oyster before others do, especially south of
the river where the routes of different TOCs are all so interconnected
with each other. All the TOCs will leap together on this one now
(including SWT, who were apparently being obstinate for a period).
Boris, like Ken beforehand, has been yelling "jump" at them for ages,
but they're an uncooperative bunch!