Dozens of train stations to get contactless tickets to save passengers cash - see full list

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is expected to marque fare and ticketing betterment a cardinal precedence for the caller state-owned Great British Railways, including expanding pay-as-you-go

Rail passengers volition beryllium capable to usage tap-in and tap-out ticketing successful much stations nether a propulsion to grow contactless bid question by the extremity of the year.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is expected to marque fare and ticketing betterment 1 of her cardinal priorities for the caller state-owned Great British Railways, including the enlargement of pay-as-you-go.

Some 47 stations successful the South East volition get a caller ticketing strategy for the archetypal clip from adjacent period with different 49 locations rolled retired implicit the year, including London Stansted Airport. The determination aims to prevention passengers clip and wealth by guaranteeing the champion worth ticket.

Rail Minister Lord Peter Hendy said: “The ticketing strategy is acold excessively complicated, truthful we’re taking the accent retired of navigating the labyrinth of fares and replacing it with caller technology truthful passengers tin simply tap-in tap-out, portion being guaranteed the champion fare disposable astatine the clip connected the day.

“This hassle-free exertion volition simplify thousands of journeys each time for passengers crossed the South East, and it’s thing we volition rotation retired to different cities arsenic soon arsenic we can, unlocking maturation crossed the state arsenic portion of our Plan for Change.”

The Department for Transport said it was moving intimately with Greater Manchester and the West Midlands to make their proposals.

It comes aft Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham precocious urged the Government to springiness mayors greater powers to hole breached obstruction networks successful their areas.

In a code connected Monday evening, Ms Alexander was expected to accidental that the mediocre show of publically tally railways similar Northern “reminds america that portion nationalist ownership volition assistance amended negociate capacity, trim costs and summation payer value, it was ne'er going to beryllium a metallic bullet.”

She was owed to add: “We tin alteration the sanction of the holding institution oregon the livery connected the broadside of the train, but nary of that guarantees a changed acquisition for the idiosyncratic connected the platform.

“I americium wide that a caller organisation indispensable mean a caller mode of working, ending the blasted crippled and maximising societal and biology good.”

List of the stations impacted successful full

From February 2

• Basildon
• Benfleet
• Chalkwell
• East Tilbury
• Laindon
• Leigh-on-Sea
• Pitsea
• Shoeburyness
• Southend Central
• Southend East
• Stanford-le-Hope
• Thorpe Bay
• Tilbury Town
• West Horndon
• Westcliff
• Bat & Ball
• Dunton Green
• Eynsford
• Otford
• Sevenoaks
• Shoreham (Kent)
• Ashford (Surrey)
• Datchet
• Egham
• Kempton Park
• Shepperton
• Staines
• Sunbury
• Sunnymeads
• Upper Halliford
• Virginia Water
• Windsor & Eton Riverside
• Wraysbury
• Apsley
• Berkhamsted
• Bletchley
• Bricket Wood
• Cheddington
• Garston
• Hemel Hempstead
• How Wood
• Kings Langley
• Leighton Buzzard
• Park Street
• St Albans Abbey
• Tring
• Watford North

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• Aylesbury
• Aylesbury Vale Parkway
• Great Missenden
• Little Kimble
• Monks Risborough
• Princes Risborough
• Saunderton
• Stoke Mandeville
• Wendover
• Billericay
• Bishop's Stortford
• Chelmsford
• Harlow Mill
• Harlow Town
• Hatfield Peverel
• Hockley
• Ingatestone
• Prittlewell
• Rayleigh
• Rochford
• Roydon
• Sawbridgeworth
• Southend Victoria
• Stansted Airport
• Stansted Mountfitchet
• Wickford
• Witham
• Southend Airport
• Ashtead
• Baldock
• Box Hill & Westhumble
• Dorking (Main)
• Dormans
• East Grinstead
• Harlington
• Hitchin
• Hurst Green
• Knebworth
• Leagrave
• Leatherhead
• Letchworth Garden City
• Lingfield
• Luton
• Oxted
• Reigate
• Stevenage
• Watton-at-Stone
• Welwyn North
• Woldingham
• Baldock
• Hitchin
• Letchworth Garden City
• Stevenage