Olympic tickets

Taken from the olympics website:

Each ticket for a Games event in London or at outside London venues will receive a one-day ‘Games travelcard’ for the day of that event along with their event ticket. The Games travelcard will entitle you to travel within zones 1–9 in London and by National Rail between London and the recommended stations for some venues outside London.

It implies that you'll receive a seperate "Games Travelcard" along with their event ticket.

Staff use their own staff passes to allow you through the gates.

Before Oyster SAs used to get a “gate pass” when they booked on and I seem to remember that they only worked on the station they were issued at. When Oyster was introduced some people were not happy that we would have to use our own staff passes to let people in and out.

Manually checking someone’s Olympic travel card defeats the object of issuing them in the first place so I guess TfL is working on the assumption that not everyone buying a ticket to the Olympics will be as criminally minded as you.

On the subject of manual gates, not double Autos, it was common practise for SAs to unlock the manual then spend the entire shift leaning on it, opening it up as and when someone approached. As I said when it was unlocked it increased the amount LUL had to pay the company that ran UTS so there were numerous memos demanding that this practise cease but they were generally ignored. I wonder what CSAs lean on now that so many manual gates have been taken away?

Well you suggested it! If not criminally minded then perhaps possessing a rather jaundiced view of your fellow human beings. I have no idea how much a moody travelcard fetches these days and to be honest I really don’t care, gave all that up when I quit stations and moved onto trains.

I’m afraid I can’t answer your query regarding staff passes for the same reason, I left before Oyster was brought in for passengers, all I know is that my staff pass can be used multiple times. I’ve never bothered checking my journey record though I’m pretty sure it is there, think it’s been used to catch a few ne’er-do-wells who were booked off sick but were doing a rather large amount of travelling.

From distant memory payment to the operating company was based on passenger numbers. For the automatic ticket gates it was easy to calculate as each time the gate opened it was assumed that one passenger was going through but as the manual gates didn’t record how many people were using it numbers were estimated based on how long the gate was unlocked. The same thing applied when the ticket gates were left open or shut down, the payment system assumed that people were still going though and charged LUL top dollar.