London Banter - Stratford Oyster Pads

On Jan 28, 12:52*pm, Jim Brittin [wake
up to reply] wrote:
Does anyone know whether one can actually touch OUT on the platforms at
Stratford without getting an unresolved journey?

I hold a Freedom Pass and also an Oyster card which I used for 'twirly'
journeys.

From last year I was able to travel on buses and underground at any
time, which obviously I can still do.

Now I can travel before 0930 from a NXEA station using PAYG on my Oyster
card but I only need to use it to Stratford, as my Freedom Pass is valid
from thereon.

To be sure, I know I can exit the station with the oyster and re-enter
with the pass but it's a lot easier if I don't have to.

Any advice welcomed.

Yes, you can *definitely* use any of the yellow Oyster validators at
Stratford to start or end your journey there - and I'm 99.9% certain
that the pink "Oyster route validators" also act in the same way.

As long as you've touched in before travelling to Stratford, when you
touch on one of the use the validators there then it will end your
journey.

(What the validators *within* the paid area actually do is end the
journey, but leave open the possibility that said journey will then be
extended on elsewhere - but if you don't present your Oyster card to
leave the system elsewhere then the journey will be deemed to have
finished at Stratford.)

Likewise, if you wanted to start a new PAYG journey from Stratford to
go out to say Romford you could do the same - touching on one of these
validators would start the journey. (You'd only be doing this if you
were in central London at the crack of dawn though!)