Greater Anglia Announces New Contactless Pay-As-You-Go 💳 at 20 More Stations, Including Stansted and Southend Airport ✈️🚅

Update - 9 March 2026: It is now officially live!

This is a quick news update to announce that Greater Anglia will extend contactless pay-as-you-go ticketing from 8 March 2026. The launch was originally expected in December 2025, but was delayed due to technical issues.

Travellers will soon be able to use contactless bank cards to travel to and from Stansted or Southend Airport without needing a paper or mobile ticket.

Let’s hope it is not delayed again! 🤞

Tap-in and tap-out contactless ticketing extended to 50 more stations across South East England, i̶n̶c̶l̶u̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶L̶o̶n̶d̶o̶n̶ ̶S̶t̶a̶n̶s̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶S̶o̶u̶t̶h̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶i̶r̶p̶o̶r̶t̶s̶ — launching 14 December 2025!

Map of stations that will offer contactless ticketing

Update - 23rd February 2026 

Please read the latest article here.

Update - 3rd December 2025

Noooooooooooooooooo! 😞

The Rail Delivery Group has announced that the expansion of contactless ticketing to Stansted and Southend Airports in London has been delayed.

Heathrow Express to continue service till 2028

Heathrow Express will continue to operate the express service from Heathrow Airport to London Paddington until 2028.

From Heathrow Express

Heathrow Express rail service has been preserved to at least 2028 under a new agreement announced today.

· New agreement confirms Heathrow Express for at least a decade

· Will improve rail service connections, resilience and reliability for Heathrow passengers

· Rail services to Heathrow to rise from 18 trains per hour to at least 22 trains per hour from December 2019

· Confirms Government support for developing western and southern rail links to Heathrow

UK debut for Euro 6 bendy buses and end of June 2017 transport news roundup

Just to wrap up the end of the month, here’s some transport news relayed from other sites.

First off, Gatwick and Bristol Airports are now operating the new Mercedes-Benz Citaro artic with Euro 6 engines.

From Route-One:

The UK’s first Euro 6 articulated buses are now running, thanks to orders from two airport operators.

Right-hand drive versions of the latest 18m Citaro G model are now in operation at Gatwick and Bristol airports. Internally, they have luggage racks, along with the trademark floor-to-ceiling ‘wardrobe’ on the rear nearside interior, housing the engine bay.

ULTra Heathrow Pods PRT – we need them everywhere!

ULTra (Urban Rapid Transit) is a Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) system for Heathrow Airport.

The pod-car system was developed by a British engineering company called Ultra Global PRT. The pod-cars use four car batteries as they don’t have any engines; they use 50% less energy than a bus does, are driverless, computer driven and are guided by lasers on an open guideway; they also charge automatically at the charging points and instead of rails, they use rubber tyres.

Route X26 awarded back to Metrobus with double deck buses

In this article, I have an exciting news update from LOTS from the recent London Bus tender awards:

EasyJet to trial hybrid hydrogen powered plane

I realise this news is about aviation but I have decided to share it in order to raise awareness of the increasing use of  zero emission hydrogen technology which is now going to be used on aircraft.

EasyJet is a low-cost airline carrier based at London's Luton Airport in Britain. It operates domestic and international scheduled services on over 700 routes in 32 countries. Their fleet size is 221 aircraft and they have 134 destinations. The company was first founded in 1995.

EasyJet will be the first airline company to operate hydrogen aircraft after they revealed their plans in the following press release.