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Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands have successfully cracked the security of the Oyster card used for fare payments on buses and tubes in London.
The researchers travelled on the tube on a cloned card, reset its credit level from a laptop and caused gates to jam closed.
Transport for London (TfL) said that its Oyster cards are secure, that personal information is kept separate from journey information and that anyone caught using a cloned card would be prosecuted.
The system is checked every 24 hours and the best any Oyster criminal could get is a day’s free travel, the company claimed.
Radboud researcher Wouter Teepe presented evidence on the crack to the Dutch parliament, which has already delayed installation of a 1bn automated payment transport system based on the same core technology.
At the heart of an Oyster card is the Mifare chip, made by Philips spin-off NXP.
Designed in the 1990s before processors of that size could handle strong encryption, Mifare has suffered at least three published cracks, according to security experts who have urged TfL to upgrade the system.
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18:00
It now seems that the Emergency Timetable has now been thrown out of the window and started again.
National Express East Coast Services are now starting and terminating at Stevenage or Peterborough. They are not going into London Kings Cross.
First Capital Connect services are suspended between Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage and trains are running between London Kings Cross and Welwyn Garden City, between Stevenage and Peterborough and between Stevenage and Cambridge
Replacement buses are running between Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage
16:00
National Express East Coast services are running a reduced service between Peterborough, Stevenage and London Kings Cross. Other services will start and terminate at Stevenage or Peterborough
First Capital Connect are now running to an emergency timetable as shown below:
xx18 minutes past the hour from London Kings Cross to Peterborough
xx06 and xx46 minutes past the hour from London Kings Cross to Cambridge
xx26 minutes past the hour from London Kings Cross to Hertford North
Services towards London Kings Cross are all running at scheduled timetabled times.
The xx12 minutes past the hour services from Hertford North to London Kings Cross are cancelled.
A bus service is in operation between Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City to supplement rail services
Grand Central and First Hull Trains services are also subject to alterations and delays.
It is estimated that this disruption will continue until the end of service today, Sunday 22 June
15:44
Services will soon be able to run via the Hertford Loop. Details will be confirmed once the line has opened between Hertford North and Stevenage (blocked due to engineering work at present).
Currently trains are terminating at Stevenage and forming all stations services back to Peterborough or Cambridge.
14:45
There is no current estimate for a normal service to resume. Notwork rail engineers are working as fast as possible to restore power to the lines. Short notice cancellations and continuing delays of up to 90 minutes can be expected.
13:00
Train services at Welwyn Garden City are being disrupted due to overhead wire problems in the Welwyn Garden City area. Short notice cancellations and delays of up to 90 minutes can be expected.
Northbound trains travelling north of Welwyn Garden City to Stevenage, Peterborough, Cambridge, Kings Lynn etc are terminating at Welwyn Garden City and forming southbound trains.
Southbound trains from Kings Lynn, Cambridge, Peterborough etc will terminate at Stevenage and form northbound trains.
Welwyn Garden City to Kings Cross services are in operation but are are subject to delay.
Rail replacement buses are running between Welwyn Garden City, Welwyn North, Knebworth and Stevenage, and return, from the front of the stations.
First Capital Connect tickets are valid on:
National Express East Anglia trains between London Liverpool Street and Cambridge.
On London Underground Tube services between Kings Cross and Liverpool Street, for passengers travelling to Cambridge on National Express East Anglia trains.
National Express trains between Peterborough and Stevenage and return (non stop services).
Thameslink route services between London St Pancras and Bedford.
National Express East Coast tickets are being accepted on:
First Capital Connect between London Kings Cross and Welwyn Garden City.
East Midlands Trains between London St Pancras and Sheffield.
CrossCountry from Doncaster to Edinburgh / Glasgow.
11:30
We are receiving reports of overhead wire sections on the East Coast Mainline at Langley Junction (near Welwyn Garden City) tripping out.
Services are currently at a stand.
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We have received information that Notwork Rail station staff will be striking for 24hours from noon on Thursday June 26th at 19 mainline stations in London and across the country next week in a dispute over compulsory redundancies.
Furthermore Notwork Rail staff will as of 1am Thursday 26th refuse to train, supervise or familiarise non-stations staff with station roles until further notice.
The TSSA and RMT unions said the action by around 330 managers, supervisors and other staff would cause “widespread disruption”.
A senior Notwork Rail spokesperson claimed that “it is prepared for the dispute and that passengers would not be affected”, just as a flying pig flew past their office window. “We’ve got contingency plans in place,” the spokesperson continued to whine. “We’ve got fully trained people who will be able to operate the stations so that the passengers won’t notice any disruption.”.
The spokesperson refused to confirm or deny if the fully trained people were agency staff.
The 24-hour strike will run from noon on June 26 and will hit stations including:
Birmingham New Street, Cannon Street, Charing Cross, Edinburgh Waverley, London Euston, Fenchurch Street, Gatwick Airport, Glasgow Central, London King’s Cross, Leeds, Liverpool Lime Street, London Liverpool Street, London Bridge, Manchester Piccadilly, London Paddington, London St Pancras, London Victoria and London Waterloo.
The unions said members were taking the action after Network Rail refused to guarantee there would be no compulsory redundancies in a reorganisation of station management.
In our recent customer services survey the results have been very surprising in most senses.
Grand Central has come bottom of the list for failing to reply to any of our Emails, and for failing to even bother to send out an automated Email, but then that is not surprising considering they have yet to reply to any of our Emails. Grand Central have continued to ignore our repeated requests for comment.
First Great Western and newcomer Wrexham and Shropshire Railway came top. Each took around a day to reply in full to our Email and FGW even had JPG attachments of the relevant documents.
The full results are listed below in alphabetical order in each section, each section is listed in rank, the best section at the top and the worst section at the bottom of the page.
The Full list of companies that replied in full to our Emails and either attached or gave links to the relevant information are listed below:
The Companies that have only part answered our Email are listed below:
The Companies that have not answered our Email but have sent out an automated acknowledgement:
The Companies that have totally ignored our Email and have not even sent out an automated acknowledgement:
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