asdf wrote:
On 22 Jan 2006 15:20:29 -0800, "MIG"
wrote:

If you are changing from the Central Line to NR, you do have to keep
your wits about you.

If you've already got your NR ticket, you have to touch out on the
platform (or it will assume you've gone to Epping or whatever).

But if you haven't got your NR ticket, you have to not touch out on the
platform, but touch out to get you through to the outside of the
barriers to where the NR tickets are sold (if you can find it).

Does it not charge you the correct fare if you touch out on the
platform and then again when leaving through the barriers?


I'd hope so, but not sure I'd want to risk it. I also wonder what
happens if one touches either once or twice in changing from the
Central to the DLR (eg if you were at the end of the platform and
assumed that you were touching into the DLR rather than out of the
Central, or vice versa).

With logical thought, it would probably be possible to program in ways
of deducing what people were doing, but there isn't much logical
thought in the railways.

Given the attitude of the railway authorities, eg closing twenty ticket
offices while placing gangs of twenty inspectors to hassle people who
can't get tickets, people inevitably feel threatened and liable to
ripoffs. That's not due to Oyster, it's due to past experience.