Oystercard at Bank DLR
 

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 20:40:28 on Mon, 14 Nov 2005,
TKD remarked:
How is that different from having a valid ticket to (say) Elephant and Castle on the northern
form
somewhere up north, and wanting to use prepay to extend the journey to Balham?

Because the entire journey will be on Oyster. If you started at an NR station you will have
to buy the ticket to Bank on paper.

The journey will no more be "all on oyster" than one which switches from northern to DLR at Bank.
Let's say they started at Cambridge with a paper ticket to Z1, then changed onto the northern at
KX and have got as far as Elephant (or Clapham South if it's a ticket to Z12), and want to
continue to Balham by Oyster.

The validator at Bank is just there to give someone the opportunity to do the
entire DLR journey on Oyster Prepay regardless of what kind of ticket they
used to get to Bank.

Oystercard at Bank DLR
 

I can't see the reason to have them at Bank as anyone travelling from
Bank DLR should have touched in somehere on the tube (not necessarily
the case at Canning Town or Stratford)

The validators are for people who didn't enter the system at a tube
station
but want to use prepay for their DLR journey.

How do people get to the validators without either arriving at the
station by tube train, or entering at Bank tube station? I can only
think it's people who arrive by DLR and immediately want to retrace
their steps.

Aren't there lifts for the mobility impaired that go from street level down
to the DLR level? Those presumably bypass the gateline and might be a
additional reason for there being validators there.

Oystercard at Bank DLR
 

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at
20:40:28 on Mon, 14 Nov 2005, TKD remarked:
How is that different from having a valid ticket to (say) Elephant and
Castle on the northern form
somewhere up north, and wanting to use prepay to extend the journey to
Balham?

Because the entire journey will be on Oyster. If you started at an NR
station you will have
to buy the ticket to Bank on paper.

The journey will no more be "all on oyster" than one which switches from
northern to DLR at Bank. Let's say they started at Cambridge with a
paper ticket to Z1, then changed onto the northern at KX and have got as
far as Elephant (or Clapham South if it's a ticket to Z12), and want to
continue to Balham by Oyster.
--

However, you could have joined the system on Thameslink from City
Thameslink, where there are no validators at all. I assume that in this case
you're expected to touch in at the first place that there *are* validators
(Farringdon?) to avoid a PF.

Does anyone know how the use of prepay on Thameslink is *supposed* to work
when you're mixing rail-only tickets with prepay?

D A Stocks

Oystercard at Bank DLR
 

However, you could have joined the system on Thameslink from City
Thameslink, where there are no validators at all. I assume that in this
case
you're expected to touch in at the first place that there *are* validators
(Farringdon?) to avoid a PF.

City Thameslink does have validators. They are on the concourse at the
Ludgate Hill end and on the barriers at the Holborn Viaduct end. So if you
have a paper ticket that only takes you to City Thameslink and then want to
start to use Pre-Pay you have to go upstairs, touch in, and come back down
again :-)