On Mar 14, 6:05*pm, "tim...." wrote:

wrote:

(Mizter T) wrote:

I made my comment because it was much better than things were a year ago
and seemed to be typical of SWT, one of the Oyster refusenik TOCs in the
sense that you still can't buy Oyster credit at their booking offices
(other than where they share with TfL as at Richmond and Wimbledon).

I don't know if they started recently but when Oyster was an TfL only
product stations shared with NR didn't sell Oyster products unless the
station was Owned by TfL.

(so the above examples didn't, but Kew Gardens did)

No, that's by no means a universal truth - for example, before PAYG
went live on NR, Silverlink offered Oyster top-ups at Kensington
Olympia, indeed I think all the Silverstink run stations on the DC
line did the same, ditto Southeastern at New Cross and Lewisham
stations, pretty sure that WAGN offered it at some (but not all)
ticket windows at Wathamstow Central (poss. also Finsbury Park), I
think c2c 'did' Oyster at Upminster (and maybe Barking), and there
were I think others...

(FWIW, I think SWT eventually came round to retailing Oyster from
their ticket windows at Wimbledon and Richmond some time before PAYG
on NR happened.)