On 11 Jan, 17:31, MIG wrote:

On Jan 11, 5:20*pm, Mr Thant
wrote:

On 11 Jan, 16:54, MIG wrote:

This makes more sense than it rejecting a double touch, but it's now
consistent with Greenwich and inconsistent with Stratford ...

What happens at Stratford?

I meant that, although all three stations are different, at Greenwich
and Woolwich you can't end your DLR journey at the main station exit,
but have to end it before leaving the DLR area, whereas at Stratford
you can end your DLR journey at the main NR/LU exit.


And at Stratford you can end your journey twice - at the standalone
reader near the end of the DLR platforms, and again at the main gates
out onto the street. You don't need to, but the system is tolerant of
you so doing, because (going back to a past thread) the readers within
the gateline are 'interchange readers'.

(Indeed I have previously proposed that one would be able to touch-in/
out on every 'interchange reader' within Stratford station with no ill
effects, but I still have to put that to the test!)


All would be solved in general if the DLR paid more attention to the
siting of pads, but I don't know if they are missable at Woolwich.

As I recall, they're located at the exits from the DLR station
building on to the NR platforms. Since there are escalators that take
you straight to the DLR station exit gatelines, you wouldn't normally
pass them unless you deliberately headed for the NR platforms.

Is this the first/only DLR gateline in the system, ie a gateline
that's not already there for LU? *Does it also work as an exit gate
for NR tickets if you head out that way?


Yes, it would appear so. On another forum a comment was made of
Woolwich being the first DLR gateline, which immediately got shot down
with mentions of the gatelines at Bank, Canning Town, West Ham and
Stratford - but the more nuanced point that got missed was that it was
the first DLR operated gateline. It would seem most bizarre if it
didn't accept NR tickets, but I dare say that many of those who made a
journey especially so as to see the station were either using Day
Travelcards or Oyster PAYG so this element may not have been tested
out by anyone who's likely to report back here!