In message , at 08:06:07 on Sat, 2
Sep 2017, Martin Coffee remarked:
On 02/09/17 07:46, Martin Coffee wrote:
On 01/09/17 21:48, Roland Perry wrote:
In message ,
at 08:00:43 on Fri, 1 Sep 2017, R. Mark Clayton
remarked:
It's difficult to think there was a very similar reason since the buses
have been OPO/DOO/whathaveyou for years.

Yes but Edinburgh's won't give change - I saw a foreign tourist put off
because he only had a note.

A tourist I met today claimed that the TfL ticket machines at
Heathrow accepted neither the new £1 nor the new £5. The latter
surprises me more. But he has a plausible account of the
conversation with the roaming helper. I think the solution was for
the helper to manually give old £1s as change for the new fiver.
My local ATW ticket machines are chip and pin only so I cannot
comment on that.
However out of the six vending machines I have access to 5 are new
£1s
Oops. That should say "5 are old £1 only".
only and 1 is new £1s only. The organisations concerned are
recycling old £1s and tell me they will continue to do so after they
are withdrawn as they will not be modified by then.

I've checked with my informant and he says that's apparently what
they'll be doing at Heathrow too.

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Roland Perry