On Jan 12, 8:37 pm, (Colin Rosenstiel) wrote:
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(Paul Oter) wrote:
The gates at King's Cross Underground (especially the ones in the
Western Ticket Hall) are notoriously bad at accepting paper tickets.
Many of them will only take the ticket is you push it in quite hard,
others refuse to accept it altogether. I have got into the habit of
identifying a particular gate that seems to work properly and using
it each day, though even that doesn't always work.

I'm surprised to see you write that. I never have problems with paper
tickets coming out of the Victoria or Piccadilly Lines and heading for
King's Cross. All on day tickets, though.

As I mentioned, the problem is mainly in the western ticket hall,
(which I use every weekday morning) as can be seen by the number of
card slots that have tape over them. However the absence of tape
doesn't guarantee that the card slot will work. Others have complained
about this on uk.railway and uk.transport.london over the past year or
so.

It's not so bad in the tube ticket hall (which I use every weekday
evening) though I have certainly had problems there as well.

PaulO