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Old February 27th 06, 06:34 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Roland Perry Roland Perry is offline
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Default Receipts for Oyster pre-pay?

In message , at 02:44:33 on
Mon, 27 Feb 2006, asdf remarked:
If you ask at a tube ticket window, you can get a print-out showing
your most recent journeys, including their costs.


When I last topped up my card, I did it at a window because the queue
there was smaller than the queue for the only working Oyster-enabled
machine (hard to believe, but true). While I was there I asked for a
"printout", and got about two feet of till roll that had loads of stuff
about when I'd topped up, as well as a whole bunch of journeys.

But that's hardly good enough given that one of my clients requires
expenses in promptly, and if I'm dashing for a train home I don't want
to have to queue at the underground ticket office every time I depart
from KX/StPancras. (I'm unlikely to be back before my expenses are due
in, and even them I'm probably dashing the opposite direction).

It's better than the Nottingham equivalent of the Oyster (Easyrider
Anytime), which I don't think has any scope for a per-journey receipt.
[And can only be topped up at one location, in the City Centre].

http://www.nctx.co.uk/EasyRider/Easyrider.htm
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Roland Perry