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London Overground ticket machines & Oyster
On 25 Apr, 07:44, Graeme Wall wrote:
In message Paul Weaver wrote: On 5 Mar, 00:54, Mizter T wrote: On 4 Mar, 23:25, Rupert Candy wrote: DLR ticket machines aren't that unique - the Tramlink ones are of the exact same design! Indeed so, as are most of the ticket machines on the Paris Metro - which have recently been adapted with smartcard readers for the Navigo card. So it can be done! And indeed it already has been done, hence this thread! The Scheidt & Bachmann made ticket machines originally installed by Silverlink at stations on the Watford - Euston line and some stations on the North London Line have been so modified. The Oyster readers in fact appeared on them ages ago, around the time of the handover to London Overground, but as the OP reports they have only just been turned on - which does suggest there were some glitches which meant they weren't yet ready to be unleashed for public use (I'm guessing there were software issues but I don't know so). It would be really useful if the DLR machines did do Oyster - I was a bit stumped the the other day with a friend who needed to top up their Oyster card before catching the DLR at Shadwell - the nearest place we could find was on Commercial Road. It does seem a massive oversight to me, when TfL is trying so hard to promote Oyster as a replacement for all paper-based tickets (which it blatantly isn't, at least not yet!) Well, of course Oyster Pay-as-you-go isn't available on most National Rail services in London - but that's not for the want of TfL and the Mayor's trying! It will happen in the next few years. But the biggest flaw with oyster is the "bus replacement" issue. If I get a tube from Epping to Oxford Circue, and there's a "replacement bus" from Loughton to Leytonstone, I get charged for at least two tube journeys, and maybe a bus journey too. In many cases at the weekend,a paper ticket is cheaper, and certainly less stressful. Whe I've used a replacement bus in London, the Oyster reader on the bus wasn't in use. And how can a paper ticket be less stressful? You buy the ticket in advance, and you know you have the right to continue your journey. I was charged a fortune once, Epping to Cutty Sark. Touch in at Epping, central line to Stratford, then what? No barriers, cross platform interschange, should I Touch out on the validator nearest to the tube, should I touch in on the DLR (platform 4), should I do both? DLR then arrived at Poplar or West India Key, I forget. Should I now touch out? Got on the replacement bus, nobody touched in. This took us to Mudchute. Got to mudchute, should I touch in at Mudchute? Got off at Cutty Sark, should I touch out? Are all the validators equal, or are some "entry" and some "exit"? I managed to get three unresolved journeys that day. Same story on the way back. Had I bought a paper ticket It would have been a hell of a lot less stressful. Had I realised the DLR was out that day I wouldn't have made the trip at all. |
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