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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 27, 2009 10:46:48 GMT
Grateful thanks to whoever it was on the gateline at Cannon Street at 1730 last night. He explained immediately the trouble I've been having with my Oyster!
I changed my bankcard to one with an RFID chip in a week or so ago and it was causing my oyster reading to get its knickers in a twist! The gentleman on the gateline told me to keep my new bankcard away from my Oyster to stop the readers getting confused.
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Post by flippyff on Nov 28, 2009 13:49:59 GMT
Thread drift coming up? Come 2012 and you won't (hopefully) need that old fashioned Oyster thingy... www.transportbriefing.co.uk/news/story?id=6398Check the time line and the entries for EMV for 2011 & 2012. A quick Google revealed EMV is payment by credit/debit card. Simon |
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 28, 2009 14:28:38 GMT
Shame the linked article thinks mag strip tickets came in for the Victoria Line in 1961!  |
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Post by franknapo on Nov 29, 2009 1:59:12 GMT
Shame the linked article thinks mag strip tickets came in for the Victoria Line in 1961! And that it was all thanks to TFL. |
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Post by roythebus on Nov 29, 2009 14:39:15 GMT
Errm, weren't the mag strip tickets trialled at Ravenscourt (Park) in the 1960's?
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Post by jswallow on Nov 29, 2009 18:16:55 GMT
Yes they were.
Shame it's perfectly correct then.
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Post by mrfs42 on Nov 29, 2009 18:40:37 GMT
Since when was Ravenscourt Park on the Victoria?  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2009 20:43:12 GMT
(...) I changed my bankcard to one with an RFID chip in a week or so ago and it was causing my oyster reading to get its knickers in a twist! The gentleman on the gateline told me to keep my new bankcard away from my Oyster to stop the readers getting confused. Hello, MRFS42, That's a bit surprising: I have put together in the same wallet my Oyster and my "Navigo" pass (The Paris "more or less" equivalent, using the same NFC technology) and I never got stuck at any gate... until today! i must admit I put together my two transport cards, but I never dared to try with a credit card: fear of having the magnetic stripe spoilt by the wawes emitted by the other one! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 11:59:35 GMT
I have the same problem with my barclaycard, I leave it indoors now as it blocks the signal. Loses money for barclaycard and especially as I have never used the wave and go or whatever its called aspect of it
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2009 12:47:17 GMT
I think the pioneer automatic gates (labelled "yellow tickets", for those with long memories) at Ravenscourt Park went in around 1961, and were described at the time as "prototypes for the Victoria Line", which was in the news than as construction was just getting under way.
Regarding gateline problems, my Oyster has worked all the readers while in my wallet with other things for years. Last week like others here I started to have problems with it not reading. Has there been some change in the sensitivity recently ? Do those on stations notice an increase in problems ?
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Post by norbitonflyer on Dec 12, 2009 0:34:21 GMT
I had to get my Oyster replaced a few months ago. The nice lady at Southwark station said the commonest cause of failure for women was magnetic clasps for handbags, whilst for men it was mechanical stress caused by keeping them in the back pocket and sitting on them! I keep mine in my shirt pocket now, and have had no further problem
(except for the daily lottery at the Waterloo barrier line, where I swear only 1 in 3 ticket gates recognise Oysters, and they are switched around every night so you never know which ones they are).
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Post by bowchurch on Dec 13, 2009 0:39:30 GMT
It took me three days after getting back from Amsterdam to work out that Oyster does not play nicely with the OV-chipkaart. I didn't realise straight away as I'd has no problems with both in my wallet while away.
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Post by suncloud on Dec 26, 2009 19:07:01 GMT
I've snapped an oyster card... couldn't touch out, and as ticket office was closed (and the next couple of days i passed through) couldn't get it sorted then and there  I've never had any problems with my Streetcar card in same wallet as my oyster... |
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Post by silverjon on Dec 26, 2009 21:39:49 GMT
There are various different frequencies or protocols that RFID cards seem to work on. For instance, neither my Oyster card nor my student ID card, when put together, will be read by any reader; my Connect by Hertz card (it's like Streetcar) doesn't seem to be bothered by my other cards at all. I think that probably uses sufficiently different specifications to not interfere: it's got a pretty long range, a couple of inches, and the others don't.
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