London Banter - View Single Post - how to load National Railcard on Oyster card

Mizter T · October 20th 15, 10:36 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 20/10/2015 01:16, wrote:

In article , (Mizter T) wrote:
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I've only seen it "calm" once in recent treks through the place. It
was always busy, that's inevitable, but now it's just appalling in
terms of how people are handled. It was so bad that even the National
Rail ticket machines and ticket office at St Pancras all had queues at
them too. Usually people don't twig that NR machines can do some
Oyster based transactions.

Oh, can they? Interesting. How about the Thameslink ticket office?

The NR ticket machines cannot do setting a Railcard discount on
Oyster - they can do Oyster topups and buying weekly Travelcards on
Oyster.

I *think* the Thameslink ticket office at St P is Oyster equipped, in
which case it should be able to set Railcard discounts on Oyster.

which can only be done by staff of course.

I kinda regarded that as a given... unless you want to try and get
yourself into the ticket office, behind the counter, logged onto the
ticket issuing system etc!