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Old July 6th 04, 04:01 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Colum Mylod Colum Mylod is offline
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Default Where do you "touch in" at DLR Blackwall?

On 6 Jul 2004 08:06:07 -0700, (Paul Weaver) wrote:

Colum Mylod wrote in message . ..
so it knew I had entered secretly without a 'touch' (monthly Z12 so I
was street legal)


So did you get charged more (single, 1-D)?


No, to my complete surprise! The non-existent entry to NHill exit was
listed at the ticket machine as a valid (nowhere) dash Notting Hill
Gate journey, lined up to match the other journeys NHill - Canary
Wharf and White City - Chancery Lane (I do get about..) No surcharge,
no attempt to grab the static 40p left on the pre-paid slot.

I expected a red bulb on exit and having to explain to the staff what
happened but the gate whirled open and let me escape. Z12 monthly as I
said so it was a valid exit, but I could have come in anywhere on the
system outside Z2 for all it knew.

As the other poster Dave said, there might have been a yellow pad on
ground level at Blackwall. I was expecting some sort of barrier at
Bank.


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