Keygo is set to expand to cover Thameslink up to Bedford and Great Northern as far as Huntingdon this autumn. There are also plans to expand its coverage to all TfL services.

https://www.itso.org.uk/wp-content/u...2016-FINAL.pdf

In message , at
02:50:58 on Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Matthew Dickinson
remarked:

Keygo is set to expand to cover Thameslink up to Bedford and Great Northern
as far as Huntingdon this autumn. There are also plans to expand its coverage to all TfL services.

https://www.itso.org.uk/wp-content/u...2016-FINAL.pdf

Are they rebranding the card? (From theKey to keyGo; with a side measure
of PAYG)

"In the autumn, keyGo will extend to stations in London and all of its
Great Northern and Thameslink routes - providing coverage from Brighton
to Huntingdon."

A nice bit of doublespeak there - last time I looked the GN route went
all the way to Peterborough. So when they say "all GN and Thameslink
routes" they mean "... but only at stations we can be arsed to equip,
thus breaking one of our franchise commitments".
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at
02:50:58 on Wed, 3 Aug 2016, Matthew Dickinson
remarked:

Keygo is set to expand to cover Thameslink up to Bedford and Great
Northern
as far as Huntingdon this autumn. There are also plans to expand its
coverage to all TfL services.

https://www.itso.org.uk/wp-content/u...2016-FINAL.pdf

Are they rebranding the card? (From theKey to keyGo; with a side measure
of PAYG)

"In the autumn, keyGo will extend to stations in London and all of its
Great Northern and Thameslink routes - providing coverage from Brighton to
Huntingdon."

A nice bit of doublespeak there - last time I looked the GN route went all
the way to Peterborough. So when they say "all GN and Thameslink routes"
they mean "... but only at stations we can be arsed to equip, thus
breaking one of our franchise commitments".

surely the problem with Peterborough is having to avoid the problem of
people using Main line trains and then toughing out as if they have used a
stopping train (which I believe attracts a lower fare)

tim

In message , at 11:56:38 on Wed, 3 Aug 2016,
tim... remarked:

"In the autumn, keyGo will extend to stations in London and all of
its Great Northern and Thameslink routes - providing coverage from
Brighton to Huntingdon."

A nice bit of doublespeak there - last time I looked the GN route
went all the way to Peterborough. So when they say "all GN and
Thameslink routes" they mean "... but only at stations we can be
arsed to equip, thus breaking one of our franchise commitments".

surely the problem with Peterborough is having to avoid the problem of
people using Main line trains and then toughing out as if they have
used a stopping train (which I believe attracts a lower fare)

No, it's because Peterborough is an East Coast managed station and GTR
haven't sorted out integrating their readers with the gateline.

People catching the East Coast trains on a cheaper "GN only" ticket are
no more of a problem than now with paper tickets. Sorted out by grippers
on the fast trains.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 11:56:38 on Wed, 3 Aug
2016, tim... remarked:

"In the autumn, keyGo will extend to stations in London and all of
its Great Northern and Thameslink routes - providing coverage from
Brighton to Huntingdon."

A nice bit of doublespeak there - last time I looked the GN route
went all the way to Peterborough. So when they say "all GN and
Thameslink routes" they mean "... but only at stations we can be
arsed to equip, thus breaking one of our franchise commitments".

surely the problem with Peterborough is having to avoid the problem of
people using Main line trains and then toughing out as if they have
used a stopping train (which I believe attracts a lower fare)

No, it's because Peterborough is an East Coast managed station and
GTR haven't sorted out integrating their readers with the gateline.

Same problem as Cambridge where the majority of 10m annual passengers use
GTR trains but AGA run the station and only handle their own smartcard and
m-ticket technologies.

And there was me thinking that ticketing was one bit that wasn't meant to be
so fragmented after privatisation.

People catching the East Coast trains on a cheaper "GN only" ticket
are no more of a problem than now with paper tickets. Sorted out by
grippers on the fast trains.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In message , at 09:06:36
on Wed, 3 Aug 2016, remarked:

And there was me thinking that ticketing was one bit that wasn't meant to be
so fragmented after privatisation.

It had to be a bit fragmented to deliver pricing competition (as you
know from your jaunts via Liverpool St).
--
Roland Perry

wrote:
In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 11:56:38 on Wed, 3 Aug
2016, tim... remarked:

"In the autumn, keyGo will extend to stations in London and all of
its Great Northern and Thameslink routes - providing coverage from
Brighton to Huntingdon."

A nice bit of doublespeak there - last time I looked the GN route
went all the way to Peterborough. So when they say "all GN and
Thameslink routes" they mean "... but only at stations we can be
arsed to equip, thus breaking one of our franchise commitments".

surely the problem with Peterborough is having to avoid the problem of
people using Main line trains and then toughing out as if they have
used a stopping train (which I believe attracts a lower fare)

No, it's because Peterborough is an East Coast managed station and
GTR haven't sorted out integrating their readers with the gateline.

Same problem as Cambridge where the majority of 10m annual passengers use
GTR trains but AGA run the station and only handle their own smartcard and
m-ticket technologies.

And there was me thinking that ticketing was one bit that wasn't meant to be
so fragmented after privatisation.

I thought the whole idea behind ITSO cards and technology was to avoid
precisely this issue. Where did it all go wrong?

Robin