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Old June 6th 09, 04:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Mr Thant Mr Thant is offline
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Default Strange Oyster error

On 6 June, 17:29, Paul Corfield wrote:
Did you touch out at Wembley Central? *If you didn't then I can fully
understand why a touch in at Wembley Stadium would, in fact, end your
original journey from Picc Circus (as recorded on your card).


It should still allow an onward journey though, shouldn't it? My
understanding is that if you touch a free-standing validator your
journey is still able to be reopened - so if he'd have touched out at
Marylebone it would extended the end point of journey. This is
certainly how it's behaved for me.

Or in other words, the gripper's machine (or the gripper) isn't
programmed to detect this state.

Speaking of incorrectly programmed Oyster machinery, last week I took
a train from Stratford to Tottenham Hale to use the Victoria Line, but
because I went straight to the tube gateline without first touching a
validator on the NR platforms, I was charged £4 for the train journey.
Grrr.

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