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[email protected] · November 9th 16, 11:38 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
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In article , lid
(Barry Salter) wrote:

On 30/10/2016 01:45, wrote:

It must be possible to set a date as, to his surprise, he found that
my railcard was already registered to the Oyster card as its serial
number was already there, presumably from the failed attempts at
Liverpool St (or we both misread the number - they only differ in one
digit, something else to check next time).

If memory serves, the first digit after the two letters in the
Railcard number is the issue number, so your first one might be
01ABC1234567890, second might be 01ABC2234567890, etc.

Hope that helps,

That was my guess too. Thanks for confirming it. I'm expecting to
find out more on Tuesday week.

Wednesday in fact. I was in London today for a lunchtime workshop. As I was
early I went to the Liverpool St ticket machines and managed to get the
expiry date corrected. Despite the lack of initiative of the 3 staff members
I met on 27th October, today's knew exactly about the idea of registering an
earlier date and fixing it later. He suspected no 2019 date would be
accepted by 01/11/2019 was accepted fine.

It turns out the number of the railcard is entered as "Photocard number" and
only the last 9 digits are recorded, not including the issue number. So the
previously recorded number is unchanged on railcard renewal. There also
seems to be no plausibility checking of the expiry date other than the 3
year maximum at the time the date is set.

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Colin Rosenstiel