On 25 May, 20:54, wrote:
On 25 May, 20:12, Matthew Dickinson
wrote:

The gateline for Platforms 2-5 at Paddington has had "No Oyster"
stickers fixed to each gate. I don't know if the gates actually don't
contain readers, or if they've been disabled as almost all trains from
these platform do not stop wihin London.

The validators at the front of Kings Cross for Platforms 1-8 are now
in use.

I could have done with knowing that before I attempted to travel from
Kings cross to Finsbury Park without touching in (not knowing there
were validators at KGX) and then being caught out by RPIs at Finsbury
Park and charged a Penalty fare for this lack of knowledge. When I
claimed that there weren't any validators for platforms 1-8 they
claimed that there were validators at *every arch*, which isn't 100%
true, there were a fair few validators, but not on every arch.
Incidently, why couldn't the validators be positioned in a more
obvious position - i.e. next to the platform? Also there isn't a lot
of signage for the validators compared to other stations where
validators are used, so I wouldn't be surprised if others have also
been caught out by this.

They never had them from new. *As you guess trains from platforms 1 -
5 never stop at an oyster station first stop will be slough.

Well, actually I once had the unfortunate experience of being diverted
into platform 5 on a slow train and was unable to touch out as a
result of the missing oyster reader, hence incurring a penalty fare
when I tried to touch in immediately afterwards into Paddington
Underground station.