In message , at 08:40:06
on Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Richard J. remarked:
Even better, with Auto Top-up it's done automatically by direct
debit, with an e-mailed confirmation, whenever the balance gets
below £5

But don't you have to collect the "auto top-up" at a *nominated*
station?

I tried to do this, but my travel plans changed; so I didn't, after
all, visit the station I'd nominated (but did visit some others). As a
result, the auto top-up failed and I [eventually] got a refund.

So instead of being nice and easy, I now have two additional
transactions on my bank account to reconcile, and no auto top-up.

I think it's only the initial set-up of Auto Top-up that may have to be
done at a nominated station. I just chose my local station,

Living, as I do, outside London, don't have a predictable "local
station". Not even KX-StPancras as on the journey in question I might
easily have been on a Thameslink train rather than MML. As it turned
out, we got a taxi from StPancras mainline instead. I had chosen the
*destination* tube station as my "nominated" one, to get over the
Thamelink/MML issue, but as we arrived by taxi even that was foiled

--
Roland Perry