Full list of 45 London commuter stations getting contactless payment for first time

Adam Toms
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Waterloo Station commuters arrive into London at ticket barriers
-Credit: (Image: Ian Vogler/Daily Mirror)


The Department for Transport (DfT) has released a full list of 45 stations in the South East of England where commuters will be able to use contactless payment. The move is funded by £27 million from Central Government.

Customers will be able to ditch tickets at each station as the changeover happens in stages throughout 2025. Stations on Chiltern Railways, Greater Anglia, and GTR are included.

Stansted Airport will be included in the expanding network of 'pay-as-you-go' stations. Currently, customers on the Stansted Express have to buy a paper or digital ticket before their journey.

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Full list of stations getting contactless

Chiltern Railways

  • Aylesbury

  • Aylesbury Vale Parkway

  • Great Missenden

  • Little Kimble

  • Monks Risborough

  • Princes Risborough

  • Saunderton

  • Stoke Mandeville

  • Wendover

Greater Anglia

  • Billericay

  • Bishop's Stortford

  • Harlow Mill

  • Harlow Town

  • Hockley

  • Prittlewell

  • Rayleigh

  • Rochford

  • Roydon

  • Sawbridgeworth

  • Southend Victoria

  • Stansted Airport

  • Stansted Mountfitchet

  • Wickford

  • Chelmsford

  • Hatfield Peverel

  • Ingatestone

  • Witham

  • Southend Airport

Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR)

  • Ashtead

  • Box Hill & Westhumble

  • Dorking (Main)

  • Hurst Green

  • Leatherhead

  • Oxted

  • Welwyn North

  • Woldingham

  • Dormans

  • East Grinstead

  • Harlington

  • Knebworth

  • Leagrave

  • Lingfield

  • Luton

  • Reigate

  • Watton-at-Stone

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan waits to greet members of Team GB arrive by Eurostar into London St. Pancras International train station
Sadiq Khan told MyLondon last year that he was working with the Government and tech and data experts in the private sector to introduce contactless payment to train stations outside of the capital -Credit:Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

In June 2023, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, told MyLondon that he and Transport for London (TfL) were working with the Government and tech and data experts in the private sector to introduce contactless payment to train stations outside of the capital.

He said: “What we’re doing is, we’re actually working with other parts of the country who want this innovation to make sure they get this innovation. We’re talking to, working with the Government to make sure there can be contactless around the country.

“The advantage of that is that you could then use the same pay-as-you-go, contactless card on journeys you make outside London and coming into London as well. As it is, we’re speaking to people from the private sector, tech and data, about what’s the next iteration of contactless payments.”

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