philthetube
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That depends whereabouts in the country you are travelling. Southeastern (by revenue a bigger TOC than LNER) and London Overground (by revenue a bigger TOC than Transpennine) don't issue e tickets at all.
TGSN (the biggest TOC by revenue) have I think 4 barriers out of 20 ish that accept e tickets at Brighton.
However I suspect that Southeastern carry a lower percentage of passengers using orange CCS than most other operators.
The *simplest* would probably be to take the cost of a contactless Zone 1 single off the price of +LONDON/+ANY PERMITTED routed tickets and remove the +, i.e. you pay for the Tube or whatever yourself. As I often like to walk or take a bus instead, and many prefer a taxi, this would allow us to make and pay for our own choices anyway. The convenience aspect of not having to stop off at a TVM isn't there any more.
This would probably be a benefit to TFL as they will only get a small percentage of the Single zone 1 fare from these tickets.