"Roland Perry" wrote in message
.uk...
In message , at 19:54:12 on Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Graham J
remarked:
It would certainly help me if tube stations had Oyster readers
whose sole function was to allow passengers to check the status of their
Oyster cards and collect any top-up.

Such readers are already attached to ticket machines at tube stations.
--
Roland Perry

Unfortunately those machines do not let you pick up online top-ups.
I know someone who got the impression that he could pick up a travelcard renewal
from the touch screen machine (he wanted to get a bus first that day instead of the tube)
He asked the staff at the station why it hadn't loaded. They said the ticket
hadn't been purchased online properly. Obviously that was not true.
They should have told him to pass through the barriers to collect the ticket. But they didn't.