On 30 May, 20:37, XmaX wrote:
Hi, I recently heard that from the moment of touching in, I have 2
hours to touch out, otherwise I will pay the penalty for not touching
out. Is that true?

I heard they upped it to 3 hours even, but I'm actually not sure about
that.


But I'm quite sure you're completely safe when you do this. It might
not be the right way of doing it, but there's no (practical /
realistic)way they can find this out.

Last weekend I had to bring some of my friends to the Stansted
Express. I didn't want to pay for two single trips, the normal way of
doing this is going Manor House to Liverpool Street (Victoria Line
partly closed and the trains not stopping at Tottenham Hale, grr) and
Liverpool Street back to Manor house. Instead, I touched in at Manor
House, did not go through the gate at Liverpool Street, and touched
out at Finsbury Park, which is close enough to where I had to be.
So the only thing registered here is a zone 2 to zone 2 trip for a
pound. I don't really feel like this is fare-dodging, although the
trip wouldn't make sense if they checked my Oyster on the way back.

This wouldn't work if you try and enter and exit at the same station,
though.