On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 17:28:43 GMT, Joe Patrick
wrote:

Are you using Pre-Pay or a Travelcard or a combination?

Prepay (with a 16-17 discount)

I am not an expert on the detailed performance of the cards and readers
but did you get any form of bleeped warning on entry at Camden Town?
From the description you give it sounds like something was written to
the card but not enough.

Nope, it worked fine - my friend (who has a Child Oystercard) also had
the same problem, an unresolved journey, but his cap remained at £1.

I assume your journey where you exited at Camden was deducted correctly?
If your previous journey was on pre-pay and not correctly recorded then
you would have had an unresolved journey so it sounds like you exited
OK. If so the card would next expect some form of entry transaction
which it sounds like you attempted to make.

I'm not sure - but I ended up paying £2.50 Instead of £2 capping.

Hmmm - sounds like some combination of card and equipment problems. As
it has happened before that would make the card the common factor unless
you did the identical journey and used identical gates on each trip.

It sounds to me as if there is some failing in the way records are being
written back to the card memory and then processed for capping.

I would be tempted to ask them to replace your card unless they can give
you a more plausible explanation relative to the validation equipment at
the locations you have used.

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Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!