On 10/10/2014 12:07, David Cantrell wrote:

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 11:55:00AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2014-10-08 10:43:02 +0000, David Cantrell said:
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Thornton Heath station ticket machine? And in the other case Victoria station?
I thought the point was to provide them where the railway/Tube doesn't.

The railway doesn't provide them. AFAIK ticket machines won't sell you a
new Oyster card, but Ticket Stops are supposed to. And anyway, if having
a station nearby was good enough, then surely ticket stops would have
never existed near any tube station.


FWIW, Tube TVMs are now equipped to 'sell' Oyster cards.

The commission that the TOCs must have missed out on by not being able
to do top-ups at ticket offices must be significant.