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On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:46:53 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote: You've missed the crucial wording "start a journey within the zones covered by your Travelcard and want to travel outside those zones on National Rail" - at Richmond, your colleague was *not* starting a journey within the zones covered by his Travelcard, hence there was no requirement for him to set an OEP. Thanks (all who responded. I think I understand, though probably will never need to know as I'm unlikely to ever get a Travelcard!). I understand the *literal* meaning of the statement, but given the obfuscation occasionally employed in rail speak wanted to clarify whether 'start a journey' really meant one from within a zone to outside or could also cover the return part - i.e. not treat each as a single journey (though that does go against the principle of Oyster PAYG not doing return fares and relying instead on the daily cap). |
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On 08/09/10 00:27, Ivor The Engine wrote:
Thanks (all who responded. I think I understand, though probably will never need to know as I'm unlikely to ever get a Travelcard!). If you never load a Travelcard onto your Oyster card you can indeed ignore the whole issue. Indeed, I had ignored the whole issue for exactly that reason; but now that I'm intending to move to London I'm expecting it's highly likely I *will* be loading a Travelcard onto my Oyster... -roy |
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On Sep 8, 1:22*pm, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 03:46:30PM +0100, wrote: Seeing as its either (as I recall) a round green light or a round red light, is there also a colour-blindness defence? And do the readers not sometimes beep (but maybe twice?) also on a failed read? *Hmm. Since I don't seem to remember very clearly, perhaps I better hope there's a "hopelessly confused" defence as well. Sometimes they bleep once, sometimes twice, and the pitch is different. I can't remember which way round it is though. *And in any case, the machine is always on my deaf side, so I've got a nice excuse there if I ever need one :-) One bleep - success. Two bleeps - fail. Multiple rapid bleeps - a 'Zip' Oyster card for young people has been presented. |
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On 7 Sep, 15:46, wrote:
Seeing as its either (as I recall) a round green light or a round red light, is there also a colour-blindness defence? And do the readers not sometimes beep (but maybe twice?) also on a failed read? *Hmm. Since I don't seem to remember very clearly, perhaps I better hope there's a "hopelessly confused" defence as well. Don't know about buses, but at Tube barriers it seems common to get a successful read followed immediately by a failed "passback" read. Thus people ignore the second one so long as the barrier doesn't close. Neil |
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