In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 11:44:05
on Sat, 23 Nov 2013, Richard remarked:
The machines could be better but all you need to remember is that most
of Berlin is in zones A and B. The new airport is in C.

30 minutes from the centre of the City.

It's a shame it doesn't show up here though:

http://www.bvg.de/index.php/de/binar...80593/file/1-1

Yes, well. The new airport has only opened in the last year or so. When we
visited in summer 2012 it was overdue and not yet open.

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Colin Rosenstiel

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 12:59:36
on Sat, 23 Nov 2013, Scott remarked:

How do you buy an Oyster card at a ticket machine?

Apparently (although I've not tried it) at least one machine at all
but one TfL station will now vend you an Oyster as well as a paper
ticket.

No doubt it will be "unregistered" as collecting all that data with a
huge queue behind you would be an issue.

How can you register an Oyster card without a ticket office? How can you
register a railcard on one without a ticket office? How can you even see if
a railcard is registered on it without a ticket office?

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 18:30:10
on Sat, 23 Nov 2013, John Ray remarked:
I can see another problem, for those who want to have a Senior
Railcard registered on their Oyster card. It's hard to see how that
could be done conveniently at a vending machine.

Ditto for the "student" railcard.

ITYM 16-25 Railcard.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

The machines could be better but all you need to remember is that most
of Berlin is in zones A and B. The new airport is in C.

30 minutes from the centre of the City.

It's a shame it doesn't show up here though:

http://www.bvg.de/index.php/de/binar...80593/file/1-1

Yes, well. The new airport has only opened in the last year or so. When we
visited in summer 2012 it was overdue and not yet open.

Due to amazing contruction foul-ups in the fire suppression and alarm
systems, it's still not open. Early 2015, maybe.

Tegel is in zone B, get your weekly AB pass at the desk near the door
to the bus stops or from the machine outside.



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How can you register an Oyster card without a ticket office?

I registered mine on the TfL web site.

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John Levine, , Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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In message , at 18:42:54
on Sat, 23 Nov 2013, remarked:
The machines could be better but all you need to remember is that most
of Berlin is in zones A and B. The new airport is in C.

30 minutes from the centre of the City.

It's a shame it doesn't show up here though:

http://www.bvg.de/index.php/de/binar...80593/file/1-1

Yes, well. The new airport has only opened in the last year or so.

It might have been one to file under "of course all the guidebooks are
always up to date"...

When we visited in summer 2012 it was overdue and not yet open.

.... if it were actually open yet. March 2014 projected, it seems, for a
partial opening of just 10 flights a day, full opening at least a year
later.
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 18:42:55
on Sat, 23 Nov 2013, remarked:
Ditto for the "student" railcard.

ITYM 16-25 Railcard.

That's why I put it in quotes.
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Roland Perry

In message , at
12:14:48 on Sat, 23 Nov 2013, Offramp remarked:
When I tried to buy tube tickets for my children on a
visit to London a few years ago I couldn't, because the machines
wouldn't sell them and the ticket office at the station was unmanned.

Was it open and unmanned or closed and unmanned?
When the ticket office is open it is not possible to buy child tickets from th machines.
However, staff sometimes wander away from their position to make tea, do some banking etc.

It's a few years ago now, but I think it was open but in "wandered off"
mode.
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Roland Perry

In message , at 16:40:23 on
Sat, 23 Nov 2013, Peter Masson
remarked:
Children aged 5 - 10 travel free on London Buses, and free on London
Underground if accompanied by a fare-paying or Freedom Pass holding
adult. Children of this age also travel free unaccompanied if they hold
an Oyster Photocard - this is available to non-resident children as
well as London residents.

That Oyster Photocard would be the "toddler Freedom Pass" then. How does
a tourist get one of those issued without using a ticket office to paste
the photo in?
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Roland Perry

In article , (John Levine) wrote:

How can you register an Oyster card without a ticket office?

I registered mine on the TfL web site.

With a railcard?

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Colin Rosenstiel