"Roland Perry" wrote:

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at 15:30:08 on Mon, 7 Feb 2011, Mizter T remarked:
I note your pick-up location is "St Pancras (National Rail)" - where
'National Rail' is specified in the name of the location, then that
means it's the NR gateline as opposed to the LU one.

I note that there's probably only Oyster capability at one of the four
stations comprising the St Pancras complex (FCC, not EMT, SET or
Eurostar), so maybe they could change that to "St Pancras Low Level
(National Rail)" and add a "St Pancras (Underground") being a synonym for
the three LUL gatelines shared with Kings Cross.

I agree that something like that would be helpful.

FWIW I've just had a quick look at the list of locations on Oyster online
and found that "King's Cross St Pancras" isn't even listed as such, instead
there's an entry for "King's Cross [London Underground / National Rail]",
which I assume is a combined location comprising of KXSP LU station and also
the NR gatelines at King's Cross. That's interesting because at nearly every
other termini station the LU and NR stations are listed as separate
locations, apart from Waterloo which like KX appears as "Waterloo [London
Underground / National Rail]". Victoria meanwhile uniquely has separate
locations listed for NR platforms 1-8 and NR platforms 9-19 as well as LU.


Meanwhile, I'll try the FCC in/out trick and see what happens; I'd have to
call the helpline anyway (to get the money transferred to a different
gateline) so I can use that call to sort out any anomaly; and it'll be a
good bit of research too!

I'm fairly confident it'll actually work - though we shall see!