London Banter - View Single Post - Next round of Ticket Office closures announced

Colin Rosenstiel · May 19th 07, 10:03 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article .com,
(Paul Weaver) wrote:

Doesn't East Putney have an auto oyster top-up machine (the type
that has a touch screen and does paper tickets too)? The one at Theydon
Bois (which has been ticket officeless for a long time) takes cards,
notes and cash. It's occasionally closed though, presumably out of
paper or something.

There is a large machine which, when it works and the queues aren't too
long, does allow one to top up Oyster. Exact money only. I forget why
Credit Cards are useless.

When that does happen, the only other oyster point in the village is
the newsagents 300 yards away, off the beaten track, which closes
before the station anyway, and doesn't always have a working top-up.
(Don't they do a surcharge anyway?)

It gets worse!

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Colin Rosenstiel