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North London Line Revisited
On Mar 28, 11:32 am, "John B" wrote:
On Mar 27, 10:18 am, "MIG" wrote: Getting the travelcard (if it's a weekly or longer season) on Oyster fixes this, leaving only buying a ODTC and getting an unexpected call to go to Canning Town during the day. But that still leaves either having to leave home in the wrong direction, go to the Oyster stop and then go back past home to the station (not likely on a work day) or getting back before the shop closes the evening before, going past home to the shop and going back again etc etc. Are you saying that neither your normal origin nor normal destination station has an Oyster-enabled ticket office or ticket machine? If not, I don't understand your problem: the effort involved is exactly the same as that involved in renewing a paper Travelcard. If so, then a) I'm amazed and b) surely the problem is just the local TOC's ineptitude (and it is just inepitude: FCC have no problems dealing with Oyster products, at least at KXTL and Finsbury Park) Although I often use LU, particularly at weekends, my most regular journeys involve SET and SWT. At one end there is now a card-only Oyster machine. I have used this when my debit card will stand it. At the other end there is no such machine. At neither end can the ticket counters deal with Oyster. However, I often have cash in my pocket and nothing in the bank. Also, I hope to go back soon to paying by company cheque (loan), which is no use at either the card-only machine or the shop. Diverting via an LU ticket office might be a possibility, but this is still a significant loss of convenience. I am still punished if I buy the only ticket product available at the ticket office at my local station (or my destination station). Why should I have to plan diversions to renew before expiry to get round this? The draconian imposition of £4 extensions is completely unfair while Oyster is not fully available, as I keep saying. |
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