OK I am a regular Underground and Tramlink user but whenever I visit
DLR, (WIQ, West India Quay, and GAR, Gallions Reach) I often fail to
touch out.

Most valaidators face out so welcome travellers to the system but
don't help those existing the system.

Thoughts?

OC

On Feb 28, 7:43 am, Old Central hotmail.com> wrote:

The DLR validators are often very badly placed. Examples:

Deptford Bridge (southern end), where the validators are near the
bottom of the stairs, but facing away from both the stairs and the
main road, towards the river path, easily missed.

Heron Quays, where the validator is in the middle of the area below
the station, nowhere near the stairs, such that if you leave at the
end nearest the Jubilee, you don't go past it or see it unless you
turn round and search for it.

On Feb 28, 7:43 am, Old Central hotmail.com> wrote:

Do they still have those misleading - totally incorrect in fact -
signs on the validators that only pay-as-you-go customers need to
swipe in? (It should be that all Oyster customers need to swipe in).

Offramp wrote:

According to the "Common Questions" on the DLR part of TfL's website "If
you are using pay as you go, you must touch your Oyster card on the
reader every time you enter and exit the station."

On 28 Feb, 09:55, Offramp gmail.com> wrote:
[DLR]

Eh? Only PAYG customers do need to swipe in - if you have a Travelcard
that covers you for the zones you're intending to travel in, you don't
need to swipe in, whether you're on NR, LU, DLR or a bendy bus.

You might disapprove of this policy out of some misguided anti-season-
ticket-holder-animosity, but it's The Case [why the flaming hell would
it not be? They have paid a great deal of money for a valid ticket
that covers their journey...]

On 28 Feb, 10:09, John B johnband.org> wrote:

On 28 Feb, 10:43, MIG doreenbird.co.uk> wrote:

On 28 Feb, 11:20, John B johnband.org> wrote:

On 28 Feb, 07:43, Old Central hotmail.com> wrote:

As an occasional visitor to London, with Oyster PAYG, I'm never sure
what to do on Tube<->DLR transfers. At Bank, there are lots of signs
saying "always touch", so I always do.

But I did Central->DLR at Stratford the other week. Mindful of Bank, I
touched as I went past the validator on the platform. On the DLR
train, there was an inspector who told me I shouldn't have used that
validator - I should have just walked straight from Tube to DLR.

And then at Cutty Sark, I found myself going up and up and wondering
where the validator would be to touch out, worrying that I had already
missed it.

Not ideal. (But overall I have to say Oyster PAYG is still great as an
infrequent visitor; I much prefer it to paper ticketing with
travelcards.)

Sam

On 28 Feb, 14:18, Sam samholloway.co.uk> wrote:

I've done the anecdote about when I was going from Euston to Cannon
Street (down the road from Bank) and forgot to touch in (used to
having a travelcard and the gate was open).