Eleven lines - one record
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well that won't be true because you can sell travelcards for any date. However, the advice is not to sell travelcards in advance as they usually fail to work the barriers if sold too far in advanceRichieG wrote:they can only sell travelcards for same-day travel...Oh well, ne'er mind.
Sorry being a bit pedantic here Hakan u were organiser in 08 not 09 that was me!hwolge wrote:The 4 hour limit was introduced in -09 when I was responsible for the rules. The reason is not primarily to cater for the slowest contestants, but rather to put a limit to how long you should wait for a section to resume after a temporary suspension, should that happen. As many of you remember we had a person-under-train incident on Victoria Line in -07 (was it?). My team and several others simply gave up, while some teams waited for it to reopen (and, of course, a lucky few had routes that had already covered the section when the incident occurred). With the 4 hour limit, it would had been easy to decide if or for how long to wait...
Sorry. My mistake.palkanetoijala31 wrote:Sorry being a bit pedantic here Hakan u were organiser in 08 not 09 that was me!hwolge wrote:The 4 hour limit was introduced in -09 when I was responsible for the rules. The reason is not primarily to cater for the slowest contestants, but rather to put a limit to how long you should wait for a section to resume after a temporary suspension, should that happen. As many of you remember we had a person-under-train incident on Victoria Line in -07 (was it?). My team and several others simply gave up, while some teams waited for it to reopen (and, of course, a lucky few had routes that had already covered the section when the incident occurred). With the 4 hour limit, it would had been easy to decide if or for how long to wait...
See my post on the bottom of page 5. The growth of unpublicised allowed out of station interchanges (which normally are useful), but which don't stop the clock for the 90 minute time limit within Zone 1, mean that dependent on route there is a high chance that you will get charged a maximum fare on Oyster, on top of the one day travelcard rate. Last Friday, I managed to pick up two maximum fares which seems to be a clear error in their system - so potentially rather expensive.hwolge wrote:Oyster or TravelCard? Previously, when Vauxhall-Waterloo didn't accept Oyster, there was no choice really. However, nowadays Oyster should work fine for the Z1CC? Opinions? Anyone?
I know what you mean!RichieG wrote:To be fair, if I can manage a sub-4 hour time on my own on my first attempt (although I did do a couple of R15s beforehand) anybody can! (The only reason I only just managed it last year was down to the heat and that I did end up at one point wandering aimlessly round Earl's Court station mildly confused with dehydration... plus a few crap changes)
Yep as mentioned as well by Richie and I keep them away from my mobile phone... I think it is just me everyone else seems ok with themnozzacook wrote:Travel cards dont always work just ask Kev (Going Underground) His always seem to stop working.
Before I mangaged to query this with the Oyster help line, I received an e-mail from Oyster refunding most (but not all) of my excess charges "due to an operational error" - even more bizarre.Nigel wrote: Last Friday, I managed to pick up two maximum fares which seems to be a clear error in their system - so potentially rather expensive.
Interesting that... how many people keep their tickets in their wallets?Sam wrote:Mobile phones are a nightmare with rail tickets! The main offender is Blackberrys, they instantly kill the magnetic strip on tickets! Try and keep tickets separate if possible from anything including bank cards