On 03/11/2012 17:04, Nick Leverton wrote:
I just realised my Oyster needs a top-up for this evening but I'll be
arriving at St.Pancras main line and probably getting a bus from stop S on
Midland Road outside the side entrance. Is there a ticket machine at that
stop, to save me trekking out of my way to the LU ticket hall and back ?

Yes - all the First Capital Connect ticket machines 'do' Oyster, as I
think does the FCC ticket office too - both are up that end of the
station. (The EMT machines and ticket office don't, though.)

You'll need to press the Oyster 'virtual button' on the touchscreen to
activate the Oyster pad, and then if you're paying with cash you have to
select or type in the amount of credit you wish to add, unlike the LU
machines where you just feed in the coins. (Though this is a useful way
of getting a bit of change from a note - e.g. ask for £17 top-up but
give it a £20 note.)