On Sat, 20 May 2006 16:36:51 +0100, Clive
wrote:

In message , Arthur Figgis
] writes
Interesting. I've failed with Nationwide (they must have mopped up the
trainspotter market by now?) and Halifax, and Barclays come to think of
it, and I've heard of others coming unstuck. Maybe it is just us...
The most annoying I've come across is the NY subway, where you enter
down a flight of steps to be met with a machine and card operated gates.
The machine takes you card, takes the money, gives you the
single/reurn/multi-use ticket you choose, you swipe the ticket at the
barrier which takes one journey off said ticket but the gates say
invalid and don't let you through, even worse when with a partner who is
on the other side. When you do get to a manned station, they test your
ticket and tell you that as it's been swiped it's your own fault.

Parisians seem to be a lot more willing than Londoners to climb the
barriers when something goes wrong - perhaps down to having fewer
gateline staff.
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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK