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Old January 12th 09, 09:24 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.railway
Matthew Dickinson Matthew Dickinson is offline
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Default DLR to Woolwich set to open this Saturday, 10 January

On 12 Jan, 00:27, Mizter T wrote:
On 11 Jan, 16:47, Mr Thant
wrote:

On 11 Jan, 16:29, MIG wrote:


This is inconsistent with the other DLR interchange at Greenwich,
because if you don't touch out at (badly sited) pad near the DLR
platform, there is no barrier or touch-out facility at the main
station exit.


I think what it means is that the NR station's ticket barrier isn't
programmed to do PAYG and rejected Abigail's Z1-3 Travelcard. Since
the DLR has its own ticket barrier and exit in the vicinity of the
station, there's no need to go through the NR station to get out from
the DLR. This seems as good a way as any of reminding people PAYG
isn't usable on NR.


That's a very interesting interpretation, one that hadn't crossed my
mind - I simply though it was the result of sloppy programming.

I have to say that *if* this is the case then it actually sounds like
a fairly good way of avoiding problems, particularly of people trying
to get in to the station whilst attempting to use Oyster PAYG for
travelling on the NR trains.


The SET gateline hasn't been reprogrammed, and did return error code
57 (PAYG not accepted) when i tried my PAYG Oyster on it.

On a slightly related note, the TfL fare finder appears to return no
fares for Richmond - Clapham Junction journeys.
I wonder what would be charged for an actual PAYG journey (via
Willesden Junction or Earls Court and West Brompton.)