On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 05:19:52 -0700 (PDT), Mizter T wrote:

Doesn't sound too great! It's really annoying when Oyster readers are
broken but not marked - only ever seems to happen at NR gatelines, LU
manage to put the faulty red sticker on it and then get it fixed
pronto.

OTOH, NR gates with defective paper ticket mechanisms get closed (and
fixed?) fairly quickly, whereas on LU they seem to take a little
longer to acquire an "Oyster only" sticker.

(Though having said that, the 3rd generation gates (as installed at
Waterloo NR, etc) seem to be particularly rubbish in that area.)