Scotrail's Smartcards have been around for a while now. Only on a limited number of routes at the moment, but it's been known that the ambition and intention was to expand the scheme network wide.
It appears to be happening this year.
http://www.transport.gov.scot/news/scotrail-alliance-launch-summer-smart-campaign
It appears that the Smartcards will initially only cover Season tickets, but there are plans to introduce other tickets onto the cards once this roll out has been completed. In the meantime, Scotrail have launched a video explaining Smartcards.
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It appears to be happening this year.
Smartcard technology will be live across every ScotRail route by the end of this summer in the biggest-ever expansion of Smart electronic ticketing on Scotlands railways, it was announced today.
http://www.transport.gov.scot/news/scotrail-alliance-launch-summer-smart-campaign
It appears that the Smartcards will initially only cover Season tickets, but there are plans to introduce other tickets onto the cards once this roll out has been completed. In the meantime, Scotrail have launched a video explaining Smartcards.
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