Region
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Single smartcard valid across multiple operators
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EMV credit / debit cards
|
Single operator period passes
|
Other operator smartcards for pay-as-you-go
|
For period passes
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For pay-as-you-go
|
For purchasing tickets
|
For pay-as-you-go
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StagecoachSmart card
|
Go-Ahead (The Key) smartcard
|
First Touch smartcard
|
Arriva Connect smartcard
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Other operator smartcards
|
England
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Bedfordshire
|
Cygnet (Bedford)[1]
|
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Arriva[2]
Stagecoach[3]
Thameslink
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Yes[4]
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Thameslink (The Key)
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Yes[5]
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Centrebus (Carbonara & Pecorino)[6]
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Thameslink (keyGo)
|
Berkshire
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First Berkshire[7]
Reading Buses[8] Stagecoach[3]
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Carousel Buses[9]
TfL (touch in only) (Slough)[10]
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Yes[11]
|
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TfL Oyster (Slough)
Courtney
Connect[12]
|
TfL Oyster (Slough) (touch in with capping)
Courtney Connect[12]
|
Bristol
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travelwest[13]
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travelwest squidcard[14]
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First Bristol, Bath & the West[15]
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Yes[16]
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Buckinghamshire
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Arriva [2]
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Carousel Buses[9]
TfL (touch in only) (Denham)[10]
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Yes[4]
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TfL Oyster
(Denham)
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TfL Oyster (Denham) (touch in with capping)
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Cambridgeshire
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Stagecoach[3]
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Yes[4]
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Go-Whippet (Busway)[17]
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Cheshire
|
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Cheshire Travelcard[18]
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Arriva[19]
Stagecoach[3]
|
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Yes[20]
|
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Yes[21]
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Cornwall
|
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First Kernow[22]
Go Cornwall [23]
Stagecoach
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County Durham
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Popcard[24]
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Stagecoach[3]
Arriva[25]
|
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Cumbria
|
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NowStar[26]
|
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Yes[20]
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Derbyshire
|
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Arriva [27]
Stagecoach[3]
|
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Yes[28]
|
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Derby
|
Spectrum[29]
|
|
Arriva [27]
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Trent Barton Mango (touch in and out with capping)
|
Devon
|
Skipper (Plymouth)[30]
|
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Plymouth Citybus[23] Stagecoach[3]
|
|
Yes
|
Yes (Plymouth Citybus)[31]
|
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Dorset
|
Getting About[32]
|
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First Bus[33]
Morebus[34]
Yellow Bus[35]
|
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Yes (Morebus)[36]
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Yellow Bus
Glo[37]
|
Yellow Bus Glo Purse[38]
|
East Riding of Yorkshire
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Transdev Coastliner[39]
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East Sussex
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Stagecoach[3]
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Metrobus
|
Yes[40]
|
Yes (Metrobus)[41]
|
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Essex
|
|
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Arriva[42]
TfL (Debden & Thurrock)
Ensignbus[43]
|
TfL (touch in only) (Debden & Thurrock)
|
|
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TfL Oyster (Debden & Thurrock)
|
TfL Oyster (Debden & Thurrock) (touch in with capping)
|
Gloucestershire
|
travelwest[13]
|
|
|
|
Yes[44]
|
|
Touchcard[45]
|
|
|
|
Greater London
|
Oyster
|
Oyster (touch in)
|
Carousel Buses [46]
Citymapper [47]
Stagecoach (Oxford Tube)[48]
|
TfL (touch in only) [10]
|
Yes (Oxford Tube)[49]
|
Yes (Metrobus)[41]
|
|
|
|
|
Greater Manchester
|
Get Me There[50]
|
|
Arriva [19]
Stagecoach[3]
|
|
Yes[51]
|
|
|
Yes[21]
|
|
|
Hampshire
|
SolentGo[52]
|
|
Stagecoach[3]
Bluestar[53]
First[54]
|
|
Yes[11]
|
Yes (Bluestar)[55]
|
Touchcard
|
|
|
|
Herefordshire
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[44]
|
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Hertfordshire
|
|
|
Arriva [42]
|
TfL (Potters Bar)[10]
|
Yes[4]
|
|
|
|
Centrebus (Carbonara & Pecorino)[6]
|
|
Isle of Wight
|
|
|
Southern Vectis[56]
|
|
|
Yes (Southern Vectis)[57]
|
|
|
|
|
Kent
|
|
Kent and Medway Connected Smartcard[58]
|
Arriva [59]
Stagecoach[3]
|
TfL (Dartford & Bluewater)
|
Yes[40]
|
Yes (Metrobus)[41]
|
|
|
TfL Oyster (Dartford & Bluewater)
|
TfL Oyster (Dartford & Bluewater) (touch in with capping)
|
Lancashire
|
|
NowStar[26]
|
Arriva [19]
Stagecoach[3]
Transdev Blackburn[60]
|
|
Yes[20]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Leicestershire
|
Onecard (Leicester)[61]
|
|
First Bus
[62]
|
Arriva[63]
Kinchbus
|
Yes[4]
|
|
|
|
Kinchkard[64]
Centrebus (Carbonara & Pecorino)[6]
|
Trent Barton Mango (touch in and out with capping)[65]
|
Lincolnshire
|
|
|
Delaine Buses[66] Stagecoach[3]
|
|
Yes[28]
|
|
|
|
Centrebus (Carbonara & Pecorino)[6]
|
|
Merseyside
|
MetroCard[67]
|
|
Arriva[19]
Stagecoach[3]
All other operators[68]
|
|
Yes[20]
|
|
|
Yes[21]
|
|
|
Norfolk
|
[69]
|
[69]
|
Lynx[70]
Sanders Coaches[71]
|
|
Yes[4]
|
|
|
|
|
|
North Yorkshire
|
|
|
Arriva[25]
Harrogate Bus Company
[72]
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
Northamptonshire
|
|
|
Stagecoach[3]
|
|
Yes[4]
|
|
|
|
Centrebus (Pecorino)[6]
|
|
Northumberland
|
|
Popcard[24]
|
Arriva[25] Go North East[73]
|
|
|
Yes (Go North East)
|
|
|
|
|
Nottinghamshire
|
Robin Hood (Nottingham)[74]
|
Robin Hood (Nottingham)[75]
|
Stagecoach[3] Trent Barton[76]
|
Trent Barton[76]
|
Yes[28]
|
|
|
|
Nottingham
City
Transport[77]
Centrebus (Pecorino)[6]
|
Trent Barton (Mango) (touch in and out with capping)[65]
Nottingham City Transport (e-purse)[78]
|
Oxfordshire
|
Oxford SmartZone (Oxford)[79]
|
|
Stagecoach[80]
|
Oxford Bus [81]
Thames Travel [82]
|
Yes[4]
|
Yes (Oxford Bus Company, Thames Travel)[83]
|
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Rutland
|
|
|
|
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|
Centrebus (Pecorino)[6]
|
|
Shropshire
|
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|
Arriva[27]
|
|
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|
Somerset
|
travelwest[13]
|
|
First Bus[33] Stagecoach[3]
|
|
Yes[16]
|
|
Touchcard[45]
|
|
|
|
South Yorkshire
|
SYPTE Smartcard[84]
|
|
Stagecoach[3]
|
|
Yes[28]
also on Sheffield Supertram
|
|
|
|
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|
Staffordshire
|
|
Swift
|
Arriva[27]
First Bus
|
National Express West Midlands
|
Yes[85]
|
|
|
|
National Express West Midlands Swift(Cannock and Stafford)[86]
|
National Express West Midlands Swift(Cannock and Stafford)[86]
Trent Barton Mango (touch in and out with capping)[65]
|
Suffolk
|
Endeavour (16-19 year olds only)[87]
|
|
Ipswich Buses
|
|
Yes[4]
|
|
|
|
Ipswich Buses[88]
|
|
Surrey
|
|
|
[10] Safeguard (Guildford)[89]
Stagecoach[3]
Arriva[59]
|
TfL (Sunbury, Dorking & Reigate);
Metrobus[90]
|
Yes[11]
|
Yes (Metrobus)[41]
|
|
|
|
|
Tyne and Wear
|
Pop card[91]
|
Pop card[24]
|
Arriva [25]
Go North East [73]
Stagecoach[3]
|
|
Yes[92]
|
Yes (Go North East)
|
|
Yes[93]
|
|
|
Warwickshire
|
|
|
Stagecoach[3]
|
|
Yes[4]
|
|
|
|
|
|
West Midlands
|
Swift[94]
|
Swift[95]
Swift Go (account based)[96]
|
Arriva[27]
Diamond Buses[97]
Midland Metro[98]
|
National Express West Midlands
|
Yes[85]
|
|
|
|
|
|
West Sussex
|
|
|
Arriva[59]
Stagecoach[3]
|
Metrobus[90]
Brighton Buses
|
Yes[11]
|
Yes (Metrobus)[41]
|
|
|
|
|
West Yorkshire
|
MCard[99]
|
MCard[100]
|
Arriva[101]
First Bus[102]
|
Transdev Harrogate[103]
Transdev Keighley[104]
|
Yes[28]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wiltshire
|
|
|
Salisburys Reds[105]
Thamesdown[106]
|
|
Yes[11][44]
|
Yes (Salisbury Reds)[107]
|
|
|
Swindon (Thamesdown)[108]
|
Swindon (Thamesdown)[109]
|
Worcestershire
|
Swiftcard[110]
|
Diamond Buses[97]
|
Diamond Buses[97] First Worcestershire[111]
|
|
Yes[85]
|
|
|
|
|
|
York
|
York by bus[112]
|
|
First York[113]
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Wales
|
Blaenau Gwent
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[114]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bridgend (Pen-y-bont ar Ogwr)
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[114]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Caerphilly (Caerffili)
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[114]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cardiff (Caerdydd)
|
|
|
Cardiff Bus[115]
|
|
Yes[114]
|
|
|
|
Cardiff Bus iff card[116]
|
Cardiff Bus iff card[116]
|
Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Ceredigion
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
Conwy
|
|
|
|
Arriva[63]
|
|
|
|
Yes[21]
|
|
|
Denbighshire (Sir Ddinbych)
|
|
|
|
Arriva[63]
|
|
|
|
Yes[21]
|
|
|
Flintshire (Sir y Fflint)
|
|
|
|
Arriva[63]
|
|
|
|
Yes[21]
|
|
|
Gwynedd
|
|
|
|
Arriva[63]
|
|
|
|
Yes[21]
|
|
|
Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn)
|
|
|
|
Arriva[63]
|
|
|
|
Yes[21]
|
|
|
Merthyr Tydfil (Merthyr Tudful)
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[114]
|
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|
|
Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy)
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
Neath Port Talbot (Castell-nedd Port Talbot)
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Newport (Casnewydd)
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[114]
|
|
|
|
Newport Bus: Passport
[117]
|
Newport BUS: Freedom[117]
|
Pembrokeshire (Sir Benfro)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Powys
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Rhondda Cynon Taf
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[114]
|
|
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|
|
Swansea (Abertawe)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
Torfaen (Tor-faen)
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[114]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vale of Glamorgan (Bro Morgannwg)
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[114]
|
|
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|
|
|
Wrexham (Wrecsam)
|
|
|
Arriva[118]
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[21]
|
|
|
Scotland
|
Aberdeenshire
|
Grasshopper[119]
|
|
First [120]
|
|
Yes[121]
|
|
Touchcard[122]
|
|
|
|
Angus
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[123]
|
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|
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|
Argyll and Bute
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
City of Edinburgh
|
|
|
Lothian Buses (Airlink)[124]
|
Lothian Buses[125]
|
|
|
|
|
Lothian Buses: Ridacard[126]
Edinburgh Trams: Ridacard[127]
|
Lothian Buses: CitySmart (journey based)[128]
Edinburgh Trams:CitySmart
(journey based)
[129]
|
Clackmannanshire
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dumfries and Galloway
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[121]
|
|
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|
|
Dundee City
|
ABC
|
|
|
|
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East Ayrshire
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[121]
|
|
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|
East Dunbartonshire
|
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|
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East Lothian
|
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East Renfrewshire
|
|
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|
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Falkirk
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[123]
|
|
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|
|
Fife
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[123]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Glasgow City
|
|
|
First[130]
|
|
Yes[123]
|
|
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|
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Highland
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Inverclyde
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
McGills (GoSmart)[131]
|
|
Midlothian
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[123]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moray
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Na h-Eileanan Siar
|
|
|
|
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|
|
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|
North Ayrshire
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[121]
|
|
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|
North Lanarkshire
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Orkney Islands
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[132]
|
|
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|
|
|
Perth and Kinross
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[123]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Renfrewshire
|
|
|
McGills[133]
|
|
|
|
|
|
McGills (GoSmart)[131]
|
|
Scottish Borders
|
|
|
|
|
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|
Shetland Islands
|
|
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|
|
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South Ayrshire
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[121]
|
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|
South Lanarkshire
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
Stirling
|
|
|
|
|
Yes[123]
|
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|
West Dunbartonshire
|
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West Lothian
|
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