On 21 Sep, 08:43, PRAR wrote:

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Oystear readers have appeared at my local stations: Norwood Junction &
Selhurst. They are not in se yet though. No evidence of the ticket
offices being able to issue Oyster tickets yet though.


One must assume that they will only come into use when the whole of
the Southern Metro network 'goes live' for Oyster PAYG acceptance,
though I'm not sure when that will be.

Ticket offices being able to issue Oyster products is theoretically no
big deal, as an Oyster pad device known as 'Pearl' should be attached
to the ticket issuing equipment, which - with an appropriate software
update - should then be able to issue such tickets. AIUI that's the
theory at least.