Date: 03/12/2019

The London Oyster contactless railcard is rightfully hailed as a visionary technological leap in the way passengers pay for rail travel, and throughout the last decade, user numbers have soared. But with the use of contactless bank cards now on a similarly steep trajectory, are the Oysters days numbered? And what effect do security issues, like a recently disclosed cyber-attack, this technology?

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Cracking open the story and future of London's Oyster Card

Railway Technology

The London Oyster railcard is hailed as a visionary technological leap in the way passengers pay for rail travel. But with the use of contactless bank cards now on a similarly steep trajectory, are the Oysters days numbered?