"Martin Rich" wrote in message

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:51:17 +0100, "TC"
wrote:


"Nigel Pendse" wrote in message
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When I got to the end of my tube journey today, none of the Oyster
readers were working and the ticket office staff said they were all
offline. This hasn't happened to me before -- how does this journey
get charged? Is it one of those "unresolved journeys"? And if it
is, how do I "resolve" it?

Unresolved journey. Go to a ticket office or call the helpline.

Nevertheless there is some resilience in the system. I was waved
through a faulty gate at (I think) Kings Cross a few weeks ago,
travelled to Finsbury Park, where there are no gates, and touched my
card against the wall-mounted reader there which then assumed that I
was entering, not exiting, the system. This was using an Oyster
loaded with both a travelcard and pre-pay. It did count as an
unresolved journey, but didn't interfere with my pre-pay balance: the
system clearly assumed that I'd stayed within the zones covered by the
travelcard, and not that I'd made a quick single trip from Finsbury
Park to Amersham

I don't have a Travelcard on mine, so I don't know how it will have
handled it (not been on the Tube since this happened).