Ian Tindale wrote:
SJCWHUK wrote:


At stations where the customer must leave one set of barriers to gain
access to another part of the station, these are called "out of station
interchanges" (a new term to play with).


I used an oyster prepay a short while ago to make 2 journeys - Beckton Park
to Barons Court and the reverse:
Beckton Park plonk in, to Towel Gateway, plonk out. Walk out of the station,
under the road, past the beggar, into Towel Bridge, plonk in, District line
to Barons Court, plonk out again. The amount extorted from the card was as
it should be. Same on return journey, where I asked a DLR person to read my
card on his Cassiopeia (my EM500 doesn't have quite the same facilities)
and it read that I was in the middle of a journey from Barons Court. This
is because on my way out of Towel Bridge, I plonked through a gate that I
immediately realised was switched to permanently open, then plonked into
Towel Gateway DLR in a hurry as the train was waiting for me. Back at
Beckton Park it seems to have resolved and the expected amount of extortion
was applied.

Maybe I should have registered "alwaysplonkout.com" instead.


--
Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London