On Sep 7, 11:26*pm, Roy Badami wrote:

It seems that I can add credit to it (or at least I didn't get to a point
where it rejected this request)

but as I have to go to a specified station to "activate" that addition, this
seems a pointless thing to do given that I can add credit at a station from
the machines without the hassle of nominating a station first

As a one off, I agree. *Auto top-up, OTOH, avoids having to worry about
running out of credit. *Which can be a bit of a problem if you've just
boarded a bendy bus. *(Not happened to me, but people have been
prosecuted for inadvertently running out of credit on a bendy bus.)

Well, that's their defence at least...