Phil Clark wrote:

I asked the oystercard people if it was possible to set the top up
threshold higher than £5. I mainly use buses, live a mile from a tube
station and the local newsagent charges 80p for an Oyster top up.

This having to check in at a Tube station is a real pain. You can top
up on line - but again have to check in at a tube station to collect
it. It's particularly a pain for people like me who live outside
London and therefore can't top up at a local newsagent.

How do you enter London, then? If by train, presumably there's a Tube
connection at whichever mainline terminus you arrive into...?

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John Band
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