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Old November 24th 08, 11:09 AM posted to uk.transport.london
Stephen Osborn[_2_] Stephen Osborn[_2_] is offline
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Default Oyster PAYG on rail to the edge of zone


"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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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?


Well I would need to touch in at an entry gate and touch out at an exit
gate. Normally the line of gates has a mix of both and so one could pick an
adjacent pair where one is entry and the other is exit, that is all.

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.


Yes, I had taken that for granted in your initial post.

regards

Stephen

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


I agree.
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Roland Perry