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02:44:08 on Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Mizter T remarked:
Standalone validators can be set up in different
ways - those within paid areas, such as the ones on the platform at
Farringdon will (almost certainly) be set up in 'interchange mode' -
if there is an open journey on the Oyster card, then touching on one
of these provides a 'soft exit' from the system, i.e. it means that if
that's that the journey will be regarded as resolved, however it also
leaves the journey open should the passenger merely be interchanging
and then travelling onwards. Note that at the moment this does *not*
top-up the original journey time-limit - presently that stays at two
and a half hours from the original touch-in to the system, though come
September the whole system of calculating the maximum allowable time
for a journey gets rather more sophisticated.

Does the journey get resolved after the timeout (if you haven't touched
elsewhere)? I guess it must, otherwise if you went from KGX to
Farringdon on the Circle, touched, then went Farringdon to Brighton on a
paper ticket you already had, you'd be charged for an unresolved
journey.
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Roland Perry