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I'm now on pay as you go.
Today I took a DLR from Devons Road to Stratford. Swiped in on way into Devons Road, Swiped out when I arrived on DLR platform at Stratford. The little display came up with 1.00 or something. So I assume I was charged £1. I then needed to exit the station at Stratford, and when I swiped through the gates I saw another 1.00 come up. I was going to queue up at the machine to find out whether or not I'd been charged twice (one DLR journey and one unresolved tube journey) but the queue was massive, stretching right out of the station. Will I have been charged twice? If so, I assume it will be easy to prove my innocence and therefore get the money back but why should I have to? If I had not used the swipe when leaving the DLR train at Stratford and gone straight for the barriers, would I have had a problem getting through the gates, or even charged more? Thanks. |
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I'm now on pay as you go.
Today I took a DLR from Devons Road to Stratford. Swiped in on way into Devons Road, Swiped out when I arrived on DLR platform at Stratford. The little display came up with 1.00 or something. So I assume I was charged £1. I then needed to exit the station at Stratford, and when I swiped through the gates I saw another 1.00 come up. I was going to queue up at the machine to find out whether or not I'd been charged twice (one DLR journey and one unresolved tube journey) but the queue was massive, stretching right out of the station. Will I have been charged twice? If so, I assume it will be easy to prove my innocence and therefore get the money back but why should I have to? If I had not used the swipe when leaving the DLR train at Stratford and gone straight for the barriers, would I have had a problem getting through the gates, or even charged more? You should be ok. Where you pass through many barriers or validators on a journey the amount that appears as the debit on the last barrier is the total debited for the entire journey since you first touched in. The same thing happens where you have to touch out twice in order to exit Stratford from the Jubilee line (you have to pass through two gatelines). It is also similar to journeys which include an and out-of-station interchange where it looks like you have been charged separately at the end of each leg, but you haven't. The debit amount display is cumulative. For future reference you do not need to touch the platform validator for the journey you describe. |
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![]() TKD wrote: I'm now on pay as you go. Today I took a DLR from Devons Road to Stratford. Swiped in on way into Devons Road, Swiped out when I arrived on DLR platform at Stratford. The little display came up with 1.00 or something. So I assume I was charged £1. I then needed to exit the station at Stratford, and when I swiped through the gates I saw another 1.00 come up. I was going to queue up at the machine to find out whether or not I'd been charged twice (one DLR journey and one unresolved tube journey) but the queue was massive, stretching right out of the station. Will I have been charged twice? If so, I assume it will be easy to prove my innocence and therefore get the money back but why should I have to? If I had not used the swipe when leaving the DLR train at Stratford and gone straight for the barriers, would I have had a problem getting through the gates, or even charged more? You should be ok. Where you pass through many barriers or validators on a journey the amount that appears as the debit on the last barrier is the total debited for the entire journey since you first touched in. The same thing happens where you have to touch out twice in order to exit Stratford from the Jubilee line (you have to pass through two gatelines). It is also similar to journeys which include an and out-of-station interchange where it looks like you have been charged separately at the end of each leg, but you haven't. The debit amount display is cumulative. For future reference you do not need to touch the platform validator for the journey you describe. As long as, if challenged on the platform, you can prove that you weren't about to jump on an NR train ... |
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