Oyster card inspectors: using someone else's card

yorkie2

silvercar wrote: »

Wow!

Can we expect to see adverts from tfl suggesting that someone comes home from work (having capped out) and then passes their oyster to their partner for an evening trip to town for free?

Probably not, because people would misread it into
a) thinking that a trip to work would result in reaching the daily cap (very unlikely for rail travel); and/or
b) mis-understanding and believing that it applies with a Travelcard

silvercar

yorkie2 wrote: »

Probably not, because people would misread it into
a) thinking that a trip to work would result in reaching the daily cap (very unlikely for rail travel); and/or
b) mis-understanding and believing that it applies with a Travelcard

From my station, a return into London would be exactly the daily cap. I have never thought to use my OH's oyster after he has got home. Only happens occasionally that he is working in London and I want to use public transport later on, but useful to know it is allowed.

trukdiver

benjus wrote: »

This is not true. I have an annual travelcard on my Oyster and have never had a photocard.

The "scanning thingies" they have now look a bit more sophisticated than the old ones - presumably they had to replace them when they started accepting contactless payment cards. So they might show more information now - don't know.

Things must have changed. I had to get a photocard when I bought a monthly Zones 1-6 Travelcard. More recently, I used rail only season tickets and they have the photocard number on the ticket.

What do you mean by the "scanning thingies"? The last time I used my Oyster (on Jan 1st), the ones I used looked the same as when Oyster first started. Are they gradually changing them over?

benjus

trukdiver wrote: »

What do you mean by the "scanning thingies"? The last time I used my Oyster (on Jan 1st), the ones I used looked the same as when Oyster first started. Are they gradually changing them over?

I mean the hand-held scanners that ticket inspectors use to check Oyster or contactless payment cards. The old ones had a very basic display that appeared to just say "OK" or "Not OK", but the new ones give a little readout of information on a screen.

skizz_b

trukdiver wrote: »

Things must have changed. I had to get a photocard when I bought a monthly Zones 1-6 Travelcard. More recently, I used rail only season tickets and they have the photocard number on the ticket.

What do you mean by the "scanning thingies"? The last time I used my Oyster (on Jan 1st), the ones I used looked the same as when Oyster first started. Are they gradually changing them over?

Was the monthly 1-6 travelcard loaded onto an Oyster?

As mentioned before the rule is that travelcards loaded onto Oyster do not require a photocard, only tickets within the Oyster zones can be loaded onto this medium. You mention rail only season tickets, which (presuming you mean a point to point season ticket, or a zonal ticket purchased from a national rail ticket office) this does require a photocard as it is a paper ticket.

The Oyster cards which do require a photo card as proof of your discount which is assigned to an individual are:
- 5-10 Zip Oyster Photocard
- 11-15 Zip Oyster Photocard
- 16+ Zip Oyster Photocard
- Student Oyster Photocard
- Apprentice Oyster Photocard
- 60+ Oyster Photocard

When registering a railcard discount on an Oyster (e.g. Gold Card/Network Railcard etc) they put the number of that photo card onto your oyster, whether or not an inspector with an Oyster reader could ask you to present that as proof of your discount, I am not sure...

skizz_b

benjus wrote: »

I mean the hand-held scanners that ticket inspectors use to check Oyster or contactless payment cards. The old ones had a very basic display that appeared to just say "OK" or "Not OK", but the new ones give a little readout of information on a screen.

TfL were FOI'd on this very subject. The readers apparently display the station the card was touched in at, what time the card was touched in at the start of the journey, and the details of any journeys that had been completed on the same day (where they were tapped in, tapped out, what times, and what fare was deducted).

trukdiver

skizz_b wrote: »

Was the monthly 1-6 travelcard loaded onto an Oyster?

Originally, it was a paper ticket. I made the same journey to work from 2000 to 2013 with the same photocard. When it changed from paper to Oyster, I was still asked for the photocard when renewing.