On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:48:28 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

The ordinary gates will only let one person through at a time

Theoretically. I have inadvertently tailgated people through them
before (where the barriers have wrongly rejected my ticket but I was
moving quickly enough that I got through anyway).

Neil

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Neil Williams wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:48:28 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

The ordinary gates will only let one person through at a time

Theoretically. I have inadvertently tailgated people through them
before (where the barriers have wrongly rejected my ticket but I was
moving quickly enough that I got through anyway).

Inadvertently? Hmmm...

But yes, two people can get through some barriers, if the second
person is right up the bum of the person in front. I've done it quite
a few times and it was always er... inadvertently!!! :-)

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:01:06 GMT,
Neil Williams wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:48:28 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

The ordinary gates will only let one person through at a time

Theoretically. I have inadvertently tailgated people through them
before (where the barriers have wrongly rejected my ticket but I was
moving quickly enough that I got through anyway).

Are you sure you didn't go through on the ticket of the person behind
you (leaving them stranded)? If people are going though quickly, the
barriers don't actually close. The person with the bad ticket will have
picked it back up just as the barrier closes and the person behind will
feed their ticket in. (My partner has been caught out twice in recent
months by this - it's particularly a problem at weekends where you've
got a mixture of regulars who feed their ticket in as fast as possible
and irregulars who don't quite know what they are doing - either that or
somehow people with dodgy tickets see my partner as an easy mark). On
the first time she was left "trainside" with no ticket, on the second
occasion she was using oyster so at least she still had her card.

Tim.

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Mizter T wrote:
... I dunno about the official rules but they
also seem to be used sometimes by adults with a small accompanying
child in tow, the latter of course travels for free if they are under
11.

The ordinary gates will only let one person through at a time, so
children without their own ticket *must* use the wide / manual gates
or they get squished.

I've never seen a dog get squished in the gates though, despite having
twice as many legs as most children, which I think is proof that dogs
are more intelligent than children.

Owain

In dog years a child is a 3 month old puppy but you expect them to show all
the intelligence of an adult.

Kevin

DERWENT "can I see your ticket please sir?"
Mon, 2 Feb 2009 09:36:07 -0000, "Stephen O'Connell"


Neil Williams wrote:
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:48:28 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

The ordinary gates will only let one person through at a time

Theoretically. I have inadvertently tailgated people through them
before (where the barriers have wrongly rejected my ticket but I was
moving quickly enough that I got through anyway).

Inadvertently? Hmmm...

But yes, two people can get through some barriers, if the second
person is right up the bum of the person in front. I've done it quite
a few times and it was always er... inadvertently!!! :-)


The trick with this is that the second person should have the ticket.


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On Feb 3, 8:44*am, PRAR wrote:

The trick with this is that the second person should have the ticket.

That can introduce the risk of one customer reported for total evasion
and one for aiding and abetting.

DERWENT "can I see your ticket please sir?"
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 23:02:27 -0800 (PST), Offramp

On Feb 3, 8:44*am, PRAR wrote:

The trick with this is that the second person should have the ticket.

That can introduce the risk of one customer reported for total evasion
and one for aiding and abetting.

Indeed.

I was caught out this way today. Woman in front of me motioned at the
reader, I followed her and swiped out. Gates opened for her then
sprang back and grabbed me. Turned out that she was let out on my
swipe as her's hadn't registered or had been rejected. All very
annoying.

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