On 27 Mar, 21:44, "Zen83237" wrote:
There seems to be far more LM trains using the non suburban platforms. Are
oyster users expected to trek to the suburban platforms to swipe when they
arrive or before they depart. The 16.54 was shown as departing from platform
12 and the stock only arrived a couple of minutes before. If an oyster user
gave up waiting and went back to get the 17.04 would they get an unresolved
journey when they swiped in again.

Kevin

There are Oyster readers accessible from platforms 16 - 18 at least,
and maybe others.

However, a far greater problem is Virgin's refusal to accept
extensions to period travelcards which happen to be stored on Oyster,
despite these being valid NR ticket combinations. There seems to be a
systematic fraud going on there.