On Jan 30, 6:41*pm, Paul Terry wrote:
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, MIG
writes

Interesting thing on that page: "You can't touch in on a pink card
reader to record the start or end of a journey."

That contradicts some assumptions that may have been made and is
surprising. *I was guessing that they were standard readers that had a
different colour put on them where they were useful for route
validation.

So I wonder

a) if the statement isn't really true, but made in order to influence
behaviour

b) what it does if your first touch of the day is on a pink?

I could be wrong, but I thought pink readers were all within gated
areas, making it impossible to use them to start a journey without
touching in on a yellow reader to enter the system, or to end a journey
without touching out on a yellow reader to exit the barriers.

Those at Kensington Olympia are not within a gated area and, along
with the one at West Brompton, are accessible via trains from outside
the zones without changing (from Milton Keynes). A similar situation,
regarding trains from outside the zones, occurs at Richmond, Wimbledon
and Stratford. My personal feeling is that the information given on
the link is incorrect, unless extra yellow validators have magically
appeared alongside the pink ones (which used to be yellow of course).