Simon Hewison wrote:

One daft thing that you can't do (but I'm sure you used to be able to

do) was use the credit on an oyster card at a tube ticket machine to
buy
a paper one day travelcard.

You have never actually been able to do that. The large touch screen
machines at some stations (Tottenham court road and others) used to
have a pay by oyster option but there was a sign saying not to use it

In article .com,
wrote:
You have never actually been able to do that. The large touch screen
machines at some stations (Tottenham court road and others) used to
have a pay by oyster option but there was a sign saying not to use it

I did it on more than one occasion at Finchley Central (usually to
get a single zone extension). There was no sign visable.

--
Mike Bristow - really a very good driver