"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
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On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, solar penguin wrote:

Mr Thant wrote:

You only need to make one totally pointless underground trip to enable
auto-top-up in the first place. After that, the actual topping up can
happen anywhere you use your card, including buses.

I stand corrected. But does the cost of the one intial pointless tube
journey get refunded at all?

No, but i'm sure you can think of somewhere in London that you'd like to
go one day where a tube is a good way of getting there. If not, may i
suggest you buy a copy of Time Out?

But to get to a Tube station, as I live in SE London, I would have to take
an Overground train and so I would normally buy a one day Travelcard at the
train station. To use my Oyster at the Tube station I would either need to
buy a train return ticket instead or use my Oyster when I had a valid
Travelcard.

In either case no only would my tube journey be pointless it would be more
expensive than necessary.

regards

Stephen


tom