wrote:

I've
entered Kings Cross late at night during development works and all the
gates were set to exit mode and had an unresolved jounrey at my exit
because I had no entry!

Even the reader by the manual gate?

I remember it being a small side area with only about 5 gates and I
don't remember a manual gate in the area - though I could be incorrect.


Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
wrote:

I've
entered Kings Cross late at night during development works and all the
gates were set to exit mode and had an unresolved jounrey at my exit
because I had no entry!

Even the reader by the manual gate?

I'm fairly new to all of this (although now I'm about to start a new job in London I'll have to get a lot more used to it!) and so I don't understand much about the vagaries of the system, however, I may be able to provide some sort of an answer to the Southwark tube station issue.

I recently got off a mainline train at Waterloo East and was heading out to meet friends at what I now know is the Southwark tube station end of The Cut. When I got to the top of the ramp off the WE platform I asked the chap at the enquiries desk which was the best/easiest way to get to that end of The Cut and he, noticing I had an Oyster wallet in my hand, said "go back onto the platform you've just come from and go along to Southwark tube station, go down the stairs and just walk straight through and out the other side"

I duly did as instructed but when I got down the stairs to the barriers the staff there told me that although the advise of the chap at WE would have been right if I had a travelcard on my Oyster, because I have only PAYG I would be charged (I forget now how much but think it may have been £1.50) for walking straight through from the entry point to exit barriers at the other end of the walkway because it would be treated as an underground journey!

I was mightily hacked off at being given misinformation and was by now in danger of being late meeting my friends (and thus falling behind on the drink count) so, after explaining to the staff member on the entry barrier that I'd been told to go this way as a short cut by the chap at WE she opened the barrier to allow me in without touching my Oyster card in, radioed the staff member on the exit barrier to tell her I was on my way and that I needed to be let through at that end too and said she would be speaking fiercely to the WE staff as they should not have told me to go this way without checking if I would be charged to do it.

Needless to say I won't be using the WE/Southwark station shortcut with my PAYG Oyster next time I go out in that area!

wrote:

I remember it being a small side area with only about 5 gates and I
don't remember a manual gate in the area - though I could be incorrect.

I'll admit to not having checked but I thought nearly all gatelines have a
gate that can be opened for buggies/large luggage/problem tickets, with a
reader next to it that presumably works both ways.

Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:
I'll admit to not having checked but I thought nearly all gatelines have a
gate that can be opened for buggies/large luggage/problem tickets, with a
reader next to it that presumably works both ways.

There are also usually remote readers dotted about, but don't go
touching them unless the gates don't work!