On 11 Jan, 18:23, " wrote:
On Jan 11, 5:20 pm, Mr Thant
wrote:

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.

Which I was, because I needed to get a ticket...

I dunno, it just seems weird to have one 'paid area' with different
gates letting you out programmed differently.


It does seem odd (if it is indeed the case), and I can't think of
anywhere else where a similar set-up exists. However, as a rudimentary
but effective measure until Oyster PAYG goes live on National Rail it
sounds like a fairly good solution of sorts.

There are another few oddities however - paper bus passes are not
accepted by the gates at Wimbledon for the tram, which makes some
sense. And at London Bridge mainline station the gates don't accept
Oyster PAYG, despite the fact it's valid on Thameslink services, which
also makes a degree of sense as most people who'll be using PAYG on
Thameslink will likely be interchanging with other mainline services
there - enabling the gates for Oyster PAYG would cause far bigger
problems than this slightly odd arrangement.