Today’s newspapers (Guardian, Evening Standard) are running stories about replacing rail tickets with fingerprint or iris scans. But there’s a little-noticed part of the statement that suggests that “super peak pricing” might be back on the agenda. That would be very … Continue reading
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Southeastern have announced that from Monday 20 February they’ll only sell full-priced “Anytime” tickets on board their trains. Cheekily they say that doing so will “strip out uncertainty for you – our passengers”. However there are also some exceptions that … Continue reading
Six weeks ago we reported on the launch of The Key, Southeastern’s Not-Very-Smart-Card. It seemed very limited – season tickets only, no Pay-As-You-Go, no automatic Delay-Repay, not even compatible with TfL Oyster/Contactless or the similarly-named Key on Southern. But we’re … Continue reading
Southeastern launched their smartcard ticket on Monday. They had an event at Sevenoaks station. The Rail Minister Paul Maynard was there: we thought that he looked a bit embarassed – perhaps because his Department apparently paid Southeastern £5.5m to implement … Continue reading
A total of £122 worth of free travel on the TfL system is available over four Mondays in October for passengers who use Android Pay and Mastercard on the Oyster/contactless system.
Because we’re still waiting for Oyster to be extended to Sevenoaks, Dunton Green, and the Darenth Valley line stations it won’t cover journeys here – just as we have missed out on previous similar offers.
However a parallel offer gives one free hot drink at Caffè Nero in Sevenoaks High Street on the same days.
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We were excited to hear that Southeastern could be planning to make changes to the Delay Repay scheme from 1 October – perhaps, at last, Delay-Repay compensation that starts after 15 minutes delay rather than 30 minutes?
Apparently not. Southeastern have told us that the changes from 1 October relate to how the existing Delay Repay scheme can be paid: there’s no sign that more generous compensation is coming any time soon.
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