wrote in message ups.com...
I wonder how many people who refuse Oyster cards are working in the
black economy and don't want their regular 5-day a week journies from
A-to-B recorded?

Also how do National Rail station and train staff indentify the
validity of an Oyster card and how do passengers with such tickets get
out of gated NR stations without readers?


They give NR staff hand held readers but they don't always seem to have them
so usually they stare blankly for a moment at your card and say "thankyou".

All NR stations in Zones 1-6 had oyster pads fitted with the exception of Romford
which had "the wrong type of gate". Although this may have been dealt with by now.
In this case you had to wait for your ticket to be checked by a man with a hand held
scanner unless it was very busy or there were several people with oyster cards who
wanted to travel in which case you were all waved through on sight of the card.

A very elegant solution.