"Martin Summerfield" wrote in message
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In message , Phil
Richards writes
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:02:45 +0100 Edward Cowling
said...

Today for the first time, due to a gentleman with poor
English taking 30 minutes to buy a ticket. I decided
to try a 20 pound note in the machine at Wood Green
tube station.

Problem at all tube stations.

Most suburban stations have only one machine capable of taking notes and
issuing travel cards, and are not infrequently out of use.

One way of solving the note problem is to have separate change-giving
machines.