Sarah Brown wrote:
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Mr Thant wrote:

That's the main entrance to the station. The bit you call the "foyer"
is really just an interchange hall in the current setup, so you
weren't outside yet.

How come you need to go through a gateline to get into it? Wouldn't
the style of optional readers they have at, e.g. Farringdon for
interchanging between tube and national rail work there for some
reason?

If there weren't dual gating there would be another potentially large hole
in the LU paid area. Basically anyone arriving at Stratford off a longer
distance mainline service can already enter or leave the Central line
without a valid ticket, due to the 'convenient cross platform interchange'.
Like Farringdon and many other NR/LU stations of course.

IIRC from one of Paul Corfield's posts a while back, it was considered by
TfL that they didn't want this loophole for entry to the Jubilee line as
well. Which is why there is a separate gateline.

Fortunately for Oyster PAYG users like yourself wishing to leave and
re-enter at Stratford the 'interchange timer' seems to be set at 30 mins.

OTOH I was caught out there a while back when I left the station, shopped,
had a coffee and re-entered within 30 mins, my eventual touch out at Kings
Cross led to two unresolved journeys due to it being more than two hours
since I first started. Easily fixed though at a ticket office.

Paul S