I just got a nice little demo of express transit this morning in NYC w/ a friend’s Apple Watch and Goldman Sachs Mastercard (Mastercard gives you 2 free rides w/ contactless on Fridays). It worked really seamlessly, you just wave your watch or phone over the pad and it the turnstile unlocks at walking speed.
If only the American monzo card was contactless… or I had a real phone that support mobile pays, rip
I dunno - if they’ve never picked up that you can get your card ready in advance of tapping, I can’t imagine those people will bother to actually set a setting on their device. But I live in hope.
works Ealing Broadway not Shepards Bush
In my limited testing, I’ve only had it work on buses and at Ealing Broadway station.
And I got the dreaded ‘read but not read’ issue at Liverpool St… I thought they would’ve fixed that by now 
Yes, I saw that happen to someone a few yards in front of me on Thursday evening. I know to avoid that one too.
There’s also one in Brixton, about fourth from the right while entering the tube.
So far for me Farringdon and Parsons Green
Fine on the bus, nothing on the tube, DLR and National Rail
Do you know the technical reason brhind this?
To enable and use Express Transit mode, you need an iPhone SE, iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus or later.3
Even stranger:
In Beijing and Shanghai, iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus support Express Transit mode.
To be fair they are not payment cards, but transit cards. However they are likely using the same tech.
TFL sent this regarding Oyster as a transit pass in Apple Wallet:
Oyster card technology is much different to Contactless payment cards.
The info is stored on the Oyster card itself, as opposed to being linked to a bank account if you will.
I don’t see this happening anytime in the near future but should it do so, we will advertise accordingly.
Apple was able to do this with Sucia also a stored value card, though the tech is slightly different.
Express Transit just used successfully at Latimer Road and Camden Town Station.
It seems to me that in the case of transit pass on TfL all they’re doing is acknowledging that when you tap on the Oyster card reader that you don’t need to authenticate with your phone. The reason for selecting a default card is so that when the phone recognises an oyster card reader it knows which card to present.
I’ve always felt that TfL want to get rid of the oyster cards and go fully contactless, but the issue with doing that is all the tourists that want/need to buy tickets.
Used it successfully this morning at Brondesbury Park station and Haggerston. 
Didn’t have much luck over the weekend but today it seems to have started working on the DLR
Just tried it on the tube - seems to work for me on the Circle line
Just used my card with express transit on-Amazing! It worked very fast! Journey from Bank station to Canary Wharf DLR 
Didn’t work at the weekend at Clapham North station but today worked at both Uxbridge and Clapham Common, which was great, Surprisingly quick! I have family visiting in a couple of weeks and they’re all ready to use apple pay instead of them trying to find the ancient oyster cards and topping them up so I’m going to make sure they enable this to avoid awkward queues.
Worked at green park, and West Hampstead tube.
Didn’t work at West Hampstead overground. Edit: did work at Hampstead Heath overground. Guess just rolling out slowly/randomly?
Worked on the bus twice though so that seems a definite.
Just tried at the Barbican tube station, risking the ire of my fellow commuters queuing behind me if it didn’t work. But it did work!