In message , at 11:26:29 on
Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Stephen Osborn
remarked:

If you go through a barrier it's not the "same reader", just the "same
line of gates".

Okay, the next door reader - if I choose the right pair of gates ;-)

What's "pair of gates" got to do with it?

As you will be doing this at a LUL station (so there's a suitable ticket
office to talk to), the ones with ticket offices virtually all have
barriers, surely?

Of course. What point are you making?

That a station with a gateline probably has a ticket office. Conversely
one without (and just pads to touch in/out and no gates) probably
doesn't.

In this case 'working sensibly' would be being able to switch on auto
top-up at the ticket office.

I agree.
--
Roland Perry