| Re: Contactless - not always the cheapest Posted by Oxonhutch at 15:05, 20th December 2025 |     |
Likewise, but it seems to get more & more difficult to find somewhere/someone to do the manual linking when you get a new Railcard. When you do find somewhere - you are in queue behind 25 non-English speaking tourists trying to buy paper tickets.
I usually head straight to the gate line at a place like Paddington (District Line) and ask someone manning it (it always is) to assist.
| Re: Contactless - not always the cheapest Posted by Clan Line at 12:11, 20th December 2025 | |
Because of my Senior Railcard, I always used Oyster within London - the two are manually linked every year. My bank card can never know about my Railcard and I would always be charged the non-discounted fare.
Likewise, but it seems to get more & more difficult to find somewhere/someone to do the manual linking when you get a new Railcard. When you do find somewhere - you are in queue behind 25 non-English speaking tourists trying to buy paper tickets.
| Re: Contactless - not always the cheapest Posted by Oxonhutch at 10:09, 20th December 2025 | |
Because of my Senior Railcard, I always used Oyster within London - the two are manually linked every year. My bank card can never know about my Railcard and I would always be charged the non-discounted fare.
| Contactless - not always the cheapest Posted by grahame at 04:32, 20th December 2025 | |
https://www.railfuture.org.uk/display4218 - Railfuture press release
Offering the option for contactless payment for rail travel is a good thing – convenient and simple. But it currently comes with a number of stings in the tail, so if a traveller wants to pay the lowest price for their travel, contactless payment often doesn’t deliver the best price
"Never have a simple system if you can have a complicated one"?? ... finding the lowest cost fare for your journey looks like it's going to be a topic that keeps on running ...
