On Apr 21, 8:08*am, asdf wrote:

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:51:24 +0100, Ian Jelf wrote:
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Mizter T writes

Rail replacement bus services are however effectively free to holders
of Oyster cards.

In fact, they're free to everyone.

Not necessarily true. The long term rail replacement bus services for
the East London Line all require passengers to produce a ticket of
some sort for inspection by the driver or for swiping on the Oyster
reader - however if you use an Oyster card then you are charged a fare
of £0.00.

I'm not sure whether this has been implemented elsewhere. I don't
recall it happening on the replacement buses that covered part of the
North London Line route during its two-and-a-half month partial
closure for works on the Hampstead tunnel last autumn.


I've always wondered about that last point. * Do you touch in at all
(and the touch in is "ignored" by the system) or are you not required to
touch in at all?

The Oyster reader on the bus is switched off. Anyone attempting to
touch in, or to show a ticket or Oyster card to the driver, is waved
away or ignored.

Except, as I say above, this isn't the case on the ELL replacement bus
services.