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Post by zebedee104 on Jun 29, 2010 19:54:41 GMT
Which is why I just wrote "they're supposed to validate an Oyster if they have it". And of course I should clarify that to say that "they must validate if they are using Oyster Prepay, and are supposed to do if they have a travelcard/bus pass loaded on it". I didn't make the rules up - for the record they're daft. But I wanted to correct an incorrect assumption that the driver isn't doing their job properly if they let someone on the front of a bendy without checking a ticket. People on the forum are too quick to jump to assumptions that the driver is being a lazy so-and-so and that's not fair on them (and that's not aimed at you Chris )
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Post by zebedee104 on Jun 29, 2010 19:16:32 GMT
Its the same problem with the 18. I've even seen drivers let people on without paying at the front door! Well of course you have. There's absolutely no requirement for anyone to show anything to the driver when they board a bendy bus. They're supposed to validate an Oyster if they have it, but if they've bought a ticket from the roadside machine or have a paper travelcard/bus pass then it doesn't need to be shown to the driver.
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Post by zebedee104 on May 10, 2010 21:03:20 GMT
Where else can you put the destination display on this body? There's nowhere TO put it above the driver because of the curvature of the windscreen.
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Post by zebedee104 on Mar 1, 2010 18:13:48 GMT
The vehicles will have been re-registered to 10 plates from the booked 59 registrations. It's a totally legal (for buses) and widespread practice.
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Post by zebedee104 on Jan 3, 2010 14:27:12 GMT
Then you can't top up your card online using that method. What you could do is enable "auto top-up" and then if your balance goes underneath £4 it'll charge £20 or £40 to your credit/debit card. Auto top-up does work on buses, ***but the first time has to be activated at a tube station***
The only other way you'd get top up onto your card would be a Ticket Stop, i.e. a newsagent/corner shop with Oyster facilities.
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Post by zebedee104 on Nov 29, 2009 11:13:59 GMT
New trains are already earmarked for Stansted Express, to be built by Bombardier. This article, while mostly referring to the Super Express trains Hitachi are going to build also mentions in passing 120 vehicles being built by Bombardier for StanEx services. Also, as an aside, I've never understood the jumping up and down for joy when any operator is replaced by another. At the end of the day, TUPE undertakings result in most of the staff who provided the service still providing the service working for new incumbent. So if they're bad apples with one hat on, they're still going to be the same bad apples, just with nice shiny new uniforms.
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Post by zebedee104 on Nov 4, 2009 17:30:32 GMT
If you've made a genuine mistake and explain what you did to them and your logic, then yes, you probably would get a refund.
But you're also right with the "it would cost a packet" to ring them. On the few occasions I've called them it's taken about 5 minutes to get through, and on a premium rate line that's a lot of dosh.
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Post by zebedee104 on Nov 3, 2009 8:34:46 GMT
You should have touched out at Paddington when you left the Ealing Broadway train. Oyster knows Paddington is a split station with multiple barrier lines. Therefore if you touch out somewhere, and then in somewhere else within the Paddington station complex it would simply continue the previous journey - as long as it's done within a certain time period, and walking straight across to the tube would certainly be OK.
By doing this though - you would see an incorrect balance at Paddington when you touched out, but that's all corrected when you complete the full journey.
And, had you called the Oyster Helpdesk on October 18th you'd have had this answer and probably a refund by now if you'd explained what you did.
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Post by zebedee104 on Sept 13, 2009 21:44:56 GMT
There's a interesting article on this on the Omnibuses blog, at this link. From reading this and the comments afterwards, there's two trains of thought. Either it was there so that the training staff in W&D land can get trained on it (presumably to assist London Central/General if needed), or it's type-testing for an upcoming revamped Unilinx network.
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Post by zebedee104 on Aug 1, 2009 23:52:04 GMT
OK stand corrected, I was just going on the big notice that was in the Ticket Office at Epping last time I was there that said that there were a couple of trains which used the platform over the bridge, otherwise all trains used the platform by the ticket hall.
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Post by zebedee104 on Jul 31, 2009 20:31:41 GMT
The icon on line diagrams indicates is level access FROM the train/platform TO street, not necessarily vice versa.
I thought with Epping that the platform over the footbridge was only used *in normal circumstances - i.e. outside times of disruption* for about two or three trains a day in the morning rush hour, with everything else using the booking office side platform. Therefore, the icon that there is level access FROM the train/platform TO the street is perfectly accurate, as there are no scheduled arrivals that use the footbridge (and if they do the help point/gate route is available).
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Post by zebedee104 on Jul 26, 2009 15:58:12 GMT
No.
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Post by zebedee104 on May 23, 2009 18:03:58 GMT
Just Glasgow.
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Post by zebedee104 on Feb 6, 2009 20:13:54 GMT
A slightly stupid question - when the sub-surface line stock is standardised, how are people going to tell between trains on different lines at a lot of stations? As well as all those replies above, the innovation with the S stock is that they are going to have a dual line display on the front, so it'll be able to show things like Upminster District Line Baker Street Metropolitan Line etc. plus side dot matrix displays as well, like with the D stock.
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