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Contactless smartcards are being progressively introduced as an alternative option to paper ticketing on the National Rail system of Great Britain. Tickets for use on National Rail services can be loaded onto any ITSO card.
The ITSO standard has been developed to cover all types of public transport. It has been included as a requirement by the
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Fare collection systems in the United Kingdom National Rail
Contactless smartcards are being progressively introduced as an alternative option to paper ticketing on the National Rail system of Great Britain. Tickets for use on National Rail services can be loaded onto any ITSO card.
The ITSO standard has been developed to cover all types of public transport. It has been included as a requirement by the Department for Transport
The Department for Transport (DfT) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved. The d ...
for all new rail franchises in the last few years. It is also the format that ENCTS
The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme is a national scheme by the Department for Transport in conjunction with local authorities across England.
The scheme extended the provision of free bus travel within individual local authorities ...
concessionary passes and rail staff passes are issued in.
Three train operating companies
A train operating company (TOC) is a business operating passenger trains on the railway system of Great Britain under the collective National Rail brand. TOCs have existed since the privatisation of the network under the Railways Act 1993.
The ...
have launched pay-as-you-go systems where fares are automatically deducted by touching-in-and-out at the start and end of the journey. Branded as keyGo on Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) and Tap2Go on South Western Railway (SWR), they require use of GTR's The Key and SWR's Touch smartcard respectively. Great Western Railway (GWR) also launched a pay-as-you-go system called GWR Touch in August 2022, which required the use of GWR’s Touch smartcard.
The first large scale adoption of smartcards for transport in Great Britain was by Transport for London (TfL) with the Oyster card. It was initially only available on TfL services, but it has been progressively rolled out to National Rail services in and around Greater London. ITSO cards can also now be used on Oyster card readers.
, support for smartcards is as follows:
See also
*Oyster card (pay as you go) on National Rail
The use of Oyster pay as you go (PAYG) payment has now been implemented across National Rail services in the London Travelcard area (Zones 1–9), some additional stations served by c2c, Govia Thameslink Railway, Greater Anglia, TfL Rail and Lo ...
* Smartcards on buses and trams in Great Britain
Contactless smartcards are being progressively introduced to replace paper ticketing on the buses of Britain. The ITSO standard has been developed as a national standard to cover all types of public transport. It is also the format that ENCTS con ...
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