I've topped up my oyster online at a station but the trains are **** from that station today. Can I

[Steve-OH]

change the station now and have the money be on the card?

[Mc Gooner]

Assuming you meant you've been there and discovered they're ****

If you meant you chose a station and now want to change which one you want to collect the top up from then :dunno:

[pjlincs]

plan to use.

Basically each station is an autonomous unit during the day with an overnight update process to centralise the data.

[Steve-OH]

[pjlincs]

- the helpline may be able to switch it centrally for today
- if you tap the card in at the top-up station it will assume you've started a journey
- maybe you could tap it in to get the credit then the ticket kiosk could cancel the journey start? (ask first!)
- if you don't activate the top-up in a time period (8 days i think) it refunds automatically so might be that you could top-up again at the new station and the original will rebate
- when you use a bus you only tap on entry (discovered that one last Saturday coming back from the Emirates when there were no trains from Wood Green to Cockfosters - tapping out again gets a double-charge!).