SJCWHUK wrote:
You obtain a receipt from the large ticket machines (if you use this
for top-up) do not just expect a credit card voucher.

If you only travel to London on business then this should be enough
to satisfy your company and the Inland Revenue when they come to go
through expense claims.

If there is any question over what trips you have made which are
business/personal remember the ticket office can give you a printout
of the last eight journeys on your card.

Sounds good to me, thanks. I did a bit of digging since my original
post, and it seems I can top-up with small amounts at a machine and
get a receipt (it's only by phone or online that the minimum recharge
is a tenner), so in practice what I'll do is pay for one journey in
advance so that on my next trip I'll have "a round in the chamber"
when I arrive at Heathrow. I can then avoid the queues and top up
with another £3.80 during the day when the machines in central London
are quieter.

If the receipt proves I used a card ending X to pay £Y at a Tube
ticket machine, that'll satisfy the bean-counters at work, just as
it does for buying singles or LT Cards now.

Thanks to everyone who responded.
--
Paul Robertson )
Glasgow (remove zzz from above to reply)

On Thu, 6 May 2004 at 18:09:24, Paul Robertson
wrote:

If the receipt proves I used a card ending X to pay £Y at a Tube
ticket machine, that'll satisfy the bean-counters at work, just as
it does for buying singles or LT Cards now.

Since you're not going to use your Oyster card regularly, it would be
sensible to register it, in case you lose it. (But I'm sure you knew
that!)
--
Annabel Smyth
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html
Website updated 8 March 2004

In article ,
(Annabel Smyth) wrote:

On Thu, 6 May 2004 at 18:09:24, Paul Robertson
wrote:

If the receipt proves I used a card ending X to pay £Y at a Tube
ticket machine, that'll satisfy the bean-counters at work, just as
it does for buying singles or LT Cards now.

Since you're not going to use your Oyster card regularly, it would be
sensible to register it, in case you lose it. (But I'm sure you knew
that!)

Why register only if you don't use the card regularly?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Sun, 9 May 2004 at 12:06:00, Colin Rosenstiel
wrote:

In article ,
(Annabel Smyth) wrote:

On Thu, 6 May 2004 at 18:09:24, Paul Robertson
wrote:

If the receipt proves I used a card ending X to pay £Y at a Tube
ticket machine, that'll satisfy the bean-counters at work, just as
it does for buying singles or LT Cards now.

Since you're not going to use your Oyster card regularly, it would be
sensible to register it, in case you lose it. (But I'm sure you knew
that!)

Why register only if you don't use the card regularly?

Well, indeed - but if you use it regularly, aren't you more likely to
have some kind of season ticket on it? In which case it has to be
registered....
--
Annabel Smyth
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html
Website updated 9 May 2004

In article ,
(Annabel Smyth) wrote:

On Sun, 9 May 2004 at 12:06:00, Colin Rosenstiel
wrote:

In article ,
(Annabel Smyth) wrote:

On Thu, 6 May 2004 at 18:09:24, Paul Robertson
wrote:

If the receipt proves I used a card ending X to pay £Y at a Tube
ticket machine, that'll satisfy the bean-counters at work, just as
it does for buying singles or LT Cards now.

Since you're not going to use your Oyster card regularly, it would be
sensible to register it, in case you lose it. (But I'm sure you knew
that!)

Why register only if you don't use the card regularly?

Well, indeed - but if you use it regularly, aren't you more likely to
have some kind of season ticket on it? In which case it has to be
registered....

OIC. Makes sense. As a national rail traveller Oyster offers me nothing
yet.

--
Colin Rosenstiel