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(Mizter T) wrote:

On Jul 14, 12:51*am, wrote:

(Mizter T) wrote:
Yes - though London Underground now impose a GBP5 minimum top-up
when using their ticket offices (i.e. the ticket windows),

Huh? Since when? I'm trying to remember when I last topped up at a
ticket office and not a ticket stop. [...]

January:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/corporate/medi...tre/13958.aspx

Though I think that's when it was applied across the network, as
it's
existed beforehand at certain busy stations (London termini) for a
while (can't recall when that started).

Hmm. I see I topped up by £1.80 in March and £1.30 in April. I think at
least one of those was made at a tube station without a murmur. It is just
possible it was done at a ticket machine, I suppose.

[...] I never top up as much as £5.

I'm tempted to ask why, but as I reckon I could quite easily script
some of the likely responses (not necessarily all coming from you
though) I'm not sure I'll bother!

I need to get receipts for the odd rail journeys I make. That is easiest
by topping up by the same amount. I mainly use my bicycle around London
these days, plus an occasional weekend bus journey for which I have a free
pass.

My Oyster balance last went to £5 when I thought I would meet the cap on a
trip to Heathrow but the plane I was meeting was diverted so I never made
the extra journeys I had planned.

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Colin Rosenstiel