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Sharing an Oyster PAYG
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 05:02:07 -0700 (PDT),
MIG wrote: When someone grabbed my annual season (possibly not deliberately) back in the early 1990s Did you get it back nearly straight away? My partner's father did exactly this to someone at Euston. He had a single that got "eaten" by the barrier. He then waited because he was expecting his ticket. The chap behind put in his gold card which Jen's dad then took and walked off with it - leaving the gold card owner stranded behind the barrier. Fortunately, my girlfriend saw this happen and ran after her dad and got the season ticket back. My partner has had her single ticket "stolen" by someone at the Euston barriers before as well. They've had an invalid ticket or someone else wrong with it. She's put her ticket in immediately behind them and then they've exited using her ticket leaving her with no ticket and no way out. Tim. -- God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t," and there was light. http://www.woodall.me.uk/ |
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Sharing an Oyster PAYG
On Nov 1, 1:20*pm, Tim Woodall wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 05:02:07 -0700 (PDT), * * MIG wrote: When someone grabbed my annual season (possibly not deliberately) back in the early 1990s Did you get it back nearly straight away? My partner's father did exactly this to someone at Euston. *He had a single that got "eaten" by the barrier. He then waited because he was expecting his ticket. The chap behind put in his gold card which Jen's dad then took and walked off with it - leaving the gold card owner stranded behind the barrier. Fortunately, my girlfriend saw this happen and ran after her dad and got the season ticket back. My partner has had her single ticket "stolen" by someone at the Euston barriers before as well. They've had an invalid ticket or someone else wrong with it. She's put her ticket in immediately behind them and then they've exited using her ticket leaving her with no ticket and no way out. As I remember the procedure used to be that you had to turn up in person at Cannon Street to face a humiliating interview with a horrible man who obviously thought he was a TV cop, without any inkling as to whether it would be replaced. Explaining that you'd have to walk across London in your lunch break because you have no travelcard, and that you need some idea whether you ought to give up your job rather than run up a credit card bill for daily travel, would not result in any clue as to whether you had a hope of getting a replacement or refund. In the end, I did get a replacement and refund for all the daily tickets I'd had to buy with a credit card. I just wish they'd saved me some stress by letting me know what was likely to happen. |
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Sharing an Oyster PAYG
On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:20:04 GMT, Tim Woodall
wrote: My partner has had her single ticket "stolen" by someone at the Euston barriers before as well. They've had an invalid ticket or someone else wrong with it. She's put her ticket in immediately behind them and then they've exited using her ticket leaving her with no ticket and no way out. The only time that sort of thing has happened to me has involved Oyster users, in which case there has been no loss of my ticket, and I've been walking quickly enough that I've actually managed to tailgate the offender through the barrier. Neil -- Neil Williams Put my first name before the at to reply. |
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