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Colin Rosenstiel · November 12th 05, 11:58 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:16 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
(Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:

So it doesn't even know where the NR bit is, e.g. whether it
logically comes before or after the LU journey? Or where the LU &
ticket destinations are? How strange.

Not strange at all given that gates were not something entertained by
British Rail when LU decided to implement UTS. Why should a gate on
the LUL system need to know about Glasgow or Barnes or Leeds? - all NR
destinations that can appear on a ticket that might be shoved through
a LU gate. All it needs to check are the bits related to the LUL journey
and that is typically just in Zone 1. It would make the ticketing
system unnecessarily complex if it had to recognise NR destinations
because it would also need to recognise routing and the NR system can
barely cope with its own routing guide never mind foisting it on LU.

I wasn't saying that. It was just that a gate might recognise what a
ticket's destination was.

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Colin Rosenstiel