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Post by jimini on May 22, 2017 16:10:47 GMT
Afternoon all,
I'm off to Stansted Airport tomorrow. I have a ticket from Stratford to Stansted, and will be using pay as you go on Oyster from South Woodford to Stratford.
So my (hopefully simple!) question is: how can I tap out at Stratford to complete that journey before getting the train from platform 11?
Thanks all ~ Jim.
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Post by norbitonflyer on May 22, 2017 16:56:53 GMT
If there are no standalone readers on the platforms (as there should be, to allow transfers such as yours) you will have to go out through the barrier with your Oyster and back in again with your paper ticket. Not too much of a pain as you have to use the subway anyway, but if there are no readers it makes a mockery of the cross platform interchange (GE lines /Central) for passengers to/from beyond Oysterland.
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Post by jimini on May 22, 2017 17:17:51 GMT
Therein lies another potential issue: my ticket is a m-ticket with a barcode, not a paper one...
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Post by sawb on May 22, 2017 17:22:34 GMT
There are still oyster readers on the westbound Central line platform 3, unless they have been removed in the 10 days or so since I last passed through which I doubt.
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Post by MoreToJack on May 22, 2017 17:22:53 GMT
There are numerous Platform Validators (PVals) dotted around Stratford, although I can't remember specifically where they are off hand.
Just make sure that you only touch the yellow PVals, and not the pink ones (which also feature) - although pink ones will open a new journey, they won't close an existing one.
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Post by Deep Level on May 22, 2017 17:42:24 GMT
Both Central Line platforms have Oyster Readers on them (top of the stairs on p3/p5 if I remember correctly), as well as in the concourse leading to the Jubilee Line and the concourse leading to platforms 4a and 4b for the DLR so you have many options.
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Post by Dom K on May 22, 2017 19:05:31 GMT
I use platform 11 every day as I work in Stratford.
There are yellow oyster readers just before you head up the stairs to access platform 11. There are 2 entrances to p11, you can access both as they each have oyster readers. The only pink readers AFAIK are on p1&2 (LO platforms)
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Post by stapler on May 22, 2017 21:03:23 GMT
The main problem at Stratford is the lack of a ticket machine to buy tickets on plats 9-10 and 10A. There is one on 6/8, which is pretty useless given that all destinations generally served by those platforms are within Oyster availability.
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Post by snoggle on May 22, 2017 23:22:23 GMT
As Dom K says there are yellow Oyster readers at the bottom of the stairs that lead to platforms 11 and 12 from the main (central) corridor. This is the narrow but very busy one that leads from the main ticket hall by the bus station to the north ticket hall (for Westfield). As I have a mix of Oyster cards I have to touch in and out (or the reverse) if I use the GA route from T Hale on which my other card is not valid. I have never had any issue at all with using those validators and thank heavens they are there for people who have two different types of ticket who interchange between services.
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Post by jimini on May 23, 2017 16:37:21 GMT
Many thanks all -- managed to successfully locate the yellow reader just before the stairs up to the platform!
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