On Mar 16, 7:16*pm, Richard wrote:

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:02:54 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T
wrote:
(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.)

I wonder how? *Did they keep some old APTIS machines, or use a Ticket
Stop terminal? *At least initially, I don't think Fujitsu STAR did
Oyster.

One way such incompatibilities can be overcome is to have two entirely
separate bits of kit - the regular TIS terminals at the counters, plus
a separate terminal for loading the Oyster products onto the card
(replete with Oyster pad and also a magstripe reader) - the mildly
Heath Robinson-esque procedure being to do the financial transaction
at the regular TIS terminal and get it to spew out a ticket/coupon for
the Oyster top-up (or Travelcard etc), then walk over and stick said
coupon into the magstripe reader in the secondary terminal dedicated
to Oyster and load the desired product onto the Oyster card there (the
magstripe reader presumably cancels the coupon's magic at the same
time). Not sure if this was how SWT did it at Wimbledon and Richmond.

Never saw or heard of a Ticket Stop terminal being used in a railway
booking office, that's not to say it never happened of course.