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Old March 18th 06, 07:18 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Matthew Dickinson Matthew Dickinson is offline
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Default oyster pre-pay top up question

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:05:25 +0000 (UTC), "David Biddulph"
wrote:

"Richard J." wrote in message
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are done automatically at any tube station gates.

The main problem was that the ticket office staff weren't properly trained
on how Auto Top-up works.


Various Auto Top-Up FAQs at http://makeashorterlink.com/?B522229BC


Two errors in the FAQs are :

It does actually work at National Rail gatelines where Prepay is
valid. (I've had it work at City Thameslink & Limehouse.)

It claims that you can go into negative balance when using buses. This
seems not to work.