On 9 Jan, 20:31, "solar penguin"
wrote:
If you've never used any kind of machine in your life, perhaps:
however, if you've successfully managed to buy a Mars bar or a condom
from a vending machine, the Tube machines are hardly a complex
development on that.

I take it that you've never actually tried to use a modern ticket
machine then. You're lucky. Trust me, they're a _lot_ more complex
than a chocolate vending machine. At least the NR ones at my local
station are. I assume the TfL ones are just as bad.

Assumption, the mother of all f**k-ups.

I've personally got no problems with NR machines, but I accept they're
necessarily complicated. TfL machines are not.

--
John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org

When I was at Green Park with a queue building up behind me, there was
in fact a supervisor hanging around the machines helping people work
them.

Yes, actually I will give West Hampstead some credit there. The member of
staff on the gate line was going down the queue asking what was needed, and
taking them to the machine and operating it for them when it could be done
there.

Best Wishes,
LEWIS

On Jan 6, 1:06*am, sweek wrote:
I went to Turnpike Lane today, and it all worked just fine. The guy
knew what I was talking about and put the cap on my existing Oyster
card.
I did have to fill in the registration form again, even though it was
an already registered card.

Back on topic - got mine done at Northfields today; took less than a
minute after confirming that my Oyster was already registered.
~cj

On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:33:44 GMT, (Neil
Williams) wrote:

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 20:31:14 -0000, "solar penguin"
wrote:

Sadly, they've phased out the ticket vending machines that have
different buttons for each destination,

You mean the ones that only issued a limited number of destinations?

I presume he means the ones that had a button for each station on the
network, as shown (though not too clearly) in the following pictu

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/pre...777/227964.JPG

wrote:
On Jan 6, 1:06 am, sweek wrote:
I went to Turnpike Lane today, and it all worked just fine. The guy
knew what I was talking about and put the cap on my existing Oyster
card.
I did have to fill in the registration form again, even though it was
an already registered card.

Back on topic - got mine done at Northfields today; took less than a
minute after confirming that my Oyster was already registered.
~cj

Likewise at Farringdon. And my card is the '18+ Student' version too.