On Mar 9, 3:58*pm, martin wrote:

On 8 Mar, 13:03, Mizter T wrote:

On Mar 8, 11:23*am, Stuart Johnson
wrote:
Second question relates to OSIs.

Say I arrive at Shepherds Bush NR and intend to travel on from
Shepherds Bush LU, I have 20 minutes to do it. If that timelimit
expires I assume the journey would finish at the NR station and any
new entry would start a new journey? [...]

Yes, if the time limit for an OSI expires, then it would mean that a
totally new journey was started. (I haven't double-checked that the
Shepherds Bush NR to Shepherds Bush LU OSI is indeed set at 20
minutes, but that seems more than enough time to cross the road!)

It is 20 minutes.
I did this today, largely to see what happens:
Wood Green - Shepherds Bush (Central Line)
pop up to Westfield to collect my now-repaired computer, and return to
the station in under 20 minutes
Shepherds Bush (Overground) - Harringay Green Lanes, touching the pink
validator at Gospel Oak on the way.

The journey history on a tube ticket machine shows up as:
Wood Green - Shepherds Bush (£0)
Wood Green - Uncompleted (£4.30, which is the entry charge for a tube
station)
Gospel Oak - Harringay Green Lanes (£1.30)

The first journey from Wood Green presumably timed out 90 minutes
after it started, while I was still on my way to Gospel Oak. It's
interesting that the pink reader started a new journey - I'm beginning
to think that there's no difference between them and the yellow pads,
other than the text on the display.

The pink readers might have some extra magic about them, but they can
definitely be used to start journeys because I did this at Highbury &
Islington a few weeks back (but haven't yet got round to saying so
here) - 'twas after an Arsenal home game, when the gates are locked
open at H&I so I just walked straight through and down to the NLL
platform to touch-in on the pink reader there (before making my way on
to Camden and a pub!). I suspect that the pink readers can be used to
end journeys too but haven't tested this.


From what I understand from this group, the system ought to work out
where I've been, and refund me £1.90 in the next couple of days.

What's been termed an 'auto-correction', which is a useful way of
describing it. Do report back on how long this takes.