"Graham J" wrote in message
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If you touch in, but then don't touch out, what is the charging scheme?
Are you charged the maximum for the route you're on, or the minimum or
what?

When the system was introduced you were only being charged a minimum fare
and that was still the case as late as August. However it seems it has
always been the plan to switch to charging the maximum possible fare. I
don't know if that has now been brought in.


Yesterday I was unable to "touch out" my prepay Oyster due to all the gates
being out of order at a station that I was exiting from.

When I phoned the Oystercard helpline, I was told that I was only charged
the minimum fare for that journey. When I asked if and when the max fare
might be introduced for this sort of thing, they said "soon".