Ealing Broadway is Owned/Leased to Thames Trains - The gate system are owned
by Thames trains and is not the same as LU gate lines.... they didn't want
to spend the money on thier own.... the gates are bought from the same
company as LU even have the roundel on... which LU are arguing over....
but the softeware is different and Thames trains cannot make the software
work with the new Oyster cards..... it will be a loooooonnnngggg time
before it is concluded...



"Steve Brown" wrote in message
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Yes, I went through Ealing Broadway tonight and indeed the only Oyster
reader working is the one on the manual gate! Assuming they've had a
faulty
batch of readers on the barriers, I can only wonder if anywhere else has
the
same problem!? Anyone have an insight into this?


"Anteateruk" wrote in message
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"Anteateruk" wrote in message
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For about 3 weeks one of the oyster readers to get out of the station
has
been broken - it does nothing when you put your oyster card on it -
last
week a handwritten note was added to it. During last week a second
reader
in the "out" direction broke. This week those 2 remain broken and 3
of
the
"in" ones are also broken. That means there's now only one "in"
reader
working.

I wonder what has happened.. is it just Ealing that is being affected
by
large scale reader failure or is it happening else where?


Ok.. now it's even worse. Only one Oyster reader in the whole station
works
and that's the one on the ticket gate.. brilliant!

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Ant