"David Howdon" wrote in
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Actually I think that might cause problems as well. I've done this
(admittedly within my season ticket zones) when I was feeling a bit
grotty on one of the trains and decided to get some fresh air. So I
existed a station for about one or two minutes and then tried to
re-enter. This caused an error message and when I went to the gateline
staff they told me it was because I had just left.

This is just the passback time-out. It is, as you suggest,
to prevent people passing their card/ticket back to someone else
behind them. Hence the name. I've often exited station gate lines to
get some junk food and re-entered 90s later. The staff are well
accustomed to pass back time problems and I've never had any trouble
getting them to let me back in.

Richard [in SG19]



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