On 6 June, 17:44, Mr Thant
wrote:
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.

Has this been tried for definite, like if you touch at every validator
along the DLR, does it keep on continuing the journey or does it
assume lots of ins and outs? Does it depend on the timing?

Or if I really did visit someone near Mudchute for an hour, and then
walked on to Crossharbour to start a new journey to Bank, would it
just be read as a continuation of the original journey from down my
way?

Also, I would have assumed that not touching in at Crossharbour would
be against the rules, but if you are right, my touch "out" at Mudchute
would leave my original journey open.

Obviously two hours delay would create a new journey.


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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I guess effectively that's the problem I had at the LU gate at Canary
Wharf, not touching the DLR validator previously (when I was young and
naive).