"MIG" wrote in news:1144686617.341676.186720
@t31g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

I've noticed that there are Oyster readers near the deep-level DLR
platforms at Bank.

I can understand why they have them on the platforms at Stratford, in
case one arrives from National Rail and crosses the platform to begin
an Oyster journey.

But at Bank, you must have either started an Oyster journey already (on
LU or DLR) or else just come through, or about to leave through, the
barrier line at the entrance. So what are the deep-level Oyster
readers for?

Just curious really. It never occurred to me to look for readers there
in the past, and it hasn't been a problem.





As I said a couple of weeks ago, I got on the LU at Old Street and was
going to Barking DLR.

I had a yearly season ticket on my Oystercard, validating me for all the
zones of the DLR and zones 1-3 on LU.

I used the barrier at Old Street.

I didn't use the swipe thingy on the Bank platform.

My ticket got checked while on the DLR, and his machine said that I was
illegally on the DLR; I was not happy as the machine wouldn't say that I
have a 1-3 season ticket on it so am eligible to go anywhere on the DLR.

He ********ed me and said he was going to issue me with a penalty fare, but
in the end believed my story. He said I should have swiped in at Bank as
their machines are independent from the data collected at Old Street.

What I don't know is whether you enter from the street level at Bank
itself, whether THOSE barriers are tied in with the ones on the platform.
Surely you wouldn't need to swipe there as well??? I don't know. The whole
system is screwed until Ken manages to get full control.