On 30 Nov, 14:08, Mr Thant maha.thray.sithu.u.th...@
Will visit later.

So that was an undexpected cluster****. I wanted to keep my ticket,
and was worried about the gates at Stratford International eating it.
But there was a big sign saying "please retain your ticket for
inspection on the bus", so I put it in the gate, and of course it was
eaten.

After a bit of hassling the throng of gatestaff ("it's meant to do
that mate") I got it back. No inspection on the bus, but there was at
the temporary entrance at Stratford regional (god knows what happens
if you don't have one - are you doomed to wander the Olympic Park
forever? And of course there are no Oyster readers to touch in, and. I
ended up going to the Central Line platforms where I knew there were
some.

The bus stop at SI is on the north side, so the bus has to do a long
detour around the end of the station cutting to get to SR. A bus
turning circle has been created at SR in the V between the Lea Valley
and mainline platforms, accessed from a gate at the far, far end of
platform 11 (ignore my comment about 11 being the northernmost, I was
thinking of 12).

A few more points:
- Even if I had been let in to SR without a ticket, I would have been
trapped inside the gareline.
- I spotted four buses on the service (all of then nearly empty, of
course).
- There's no sign of any facilities or sprucing up at SI. it's very
grim, even compared to Ebbsfleet.

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