Having switched from an Oyster card to an Annual National Rail ticket,
I'm now back on the boring card in the slot Tube jounrey ... One
question to you all - does the card retain or pass on to LRT details
of each journey? This is a feature of Oyster but unsure paper tickets
register details of entry/exit/duration etc?

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Having switched from an Oyster card to an Annual National Rail ticket,
I'm now back on the boring card in the slot Tube jounrey ... One
question to you all - does the card retain or pass on to LRT details
of each journey? This is a feature of Oyster but unsure paper tickets
register details of entry/exit/duration etc?


Suggest you have a look at the recent thread 'LU end-to-end journey data'
started 23 April 2007 20:09 which covers this in some detail...

Paul

On 10 May 2007 15:14:18 -0700, wrote:

Having switched from an Oyster card to an Annual National Rail ticket,
I'm now back on the boring card in the slot Tube jounrey ... One
question to you all - does the card retain or pass on to LRT details
of each journey?

Nope.

On May 10, 11:43 pm, asdf wrote:
On 10 May 2007 15:14:18 -0700, wrote:

Having switched from an Oyster card to an Annual National Rail ticket,
I'm now back on the boring card in the slot Tube jounrey ... One
question to you all - does the card retain or pass on to LRT details
of each journey?

Nope.



Back in about 1991, when I "lost" my annual travelcard (ie someone in
front of me grabbed it out of the gate and left me stuck) I was told
that it would be possible to track it and find a pattern of movement
if it was being used fraudulently. This was an NR ticket at a time
when most gates in existence were LU.

I don't know if this required switching something on in order to start
the tracking process, but presumably it would require going back to
the ticket number noted down at the station where I bought it.

I remember having a discussion about whether it should simply be
prevented from working the gates in that case. The argument was that
they wouldn't do that because it was likely to cause a panic when the
possible thief couldn't get through the gate.

There was some sensitivity about the Kings Cross fire at the time, but
I thought that the argument was nonsense since as soon as it was known
that stolen travelcards could be prevented from working (like stolen
phones now) it wouldn't be worth stealing them any more.