Dave Newt wrote:
fatherivy wrote:

If you just want to swipe the card to load the auto top-up instruction,
but you don't want to make a tube journey, you'll then need to go to a
ticket window and have the new journey cancelled.


In which case, you might as well have queued at the window for the top-up.

Indeed, however the instructions were that you had to collect the auto
top-up instruction from a *barrier* and not a ticket machine. I assumed
that meant you couldn't collect it from a window either.