In message
, at
07:42:55 on Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Mizter T remarked:
Could you elaborate on where you've been waved through "waved through
by station staff because the machine is not working properly"? Did you
check if the Oyster reader on the gates was active? It almost
certainly would have been.

It happened to me at Heathrow in October, but I did insist on finding a
pad, which was taped off at the time.

Later it transpired they were doing a "test" to see what happened. Shame
about the people who potentially got a surcharge.
--
Roland Perry