And they will 100% guarantee ticket availability at every single station… right?
mrkinkybilly on
So I get to a station out in the countryside where I live? The machine isn’t working ~ how does that work? Just stand there until a engineer comes to fix it 4 days later?? Silly idea
Ill_Refrigerator_593 on
Railway Pricing is bizarre. Not long back the machine was bust (it was broken into frequently or sometimes removed entirely until they made it card only) & I boarded the train without a ticket.
The conducter came along & when I went to buy a ticket from my station he explained to me I could save a couple of quid if I asked for a ticket from an earlier stop the train had gone through before mine.
trmetroidmaniac on
The ticket machine at my local station is broken about 20% of the time.
Not so often that you can write it off, but often enough that you can’t count on it.
IamGruitt on
Why are people not buying them online? I literally just have the trainline app, a few taps and I’m set. I never use the machines, what’s the point.
BenathonWrigley on
The entirety of the U.K. would really thrive with cheap, affordable rail fares. Greed ruins the country.
5n0wgum on
Whatever happened to having a bloke walk down the train and ask for tickets before issuing you one of you didn’t have one? Surely it’s better to do that than just fine people? Like give them a chance to buy a ticket first.
indigo263 on
I wonder how this will work when the ticket machine at a station isn’t working – will ticket inspectors trust that someone is being truthful when they say it wasn’t working, or will they be kept informed of what machines are out of order?
I got on at a park and ride station once and hadn’t bought a ticket online as I wasn’t sure what time I’d get there, but when I got there the machine wasn’t working and for some reason I couldn’t buy a ticket online from that station to the city centre. Explained to the ticket inspector and she really wasn’t happy about it.
Another time I’d bought a ticket but had unintentionally got the dates mixed up and the ticket was for the week after 🤦🏻♀️ it was only when the inspector came around and scanned my ticket that I realised, and ended up having to pay the same price for a single than I had for a return ticket. Pricing is absolutely bonkers.
Lopsided_Turnip_792 on
Thought that this already happened. Man have I been missing out
0Neverland0 on
*Shortly to be followed by:* **Rural Train Services In Wales Cut Due To Lack Of Demand**
EstatePinguino on
There are some nonsense comments in that article, just but a ticket, it’s not hard. This is the highlight:
> Sarah Cogbill, 37, thinks the fines could put people off from using trains altogether. “They want people off the roads, but they need to make transport easy,” she said. “If people are going to be fined, they are going to jump in the car.”
0Coriolanus0 on
They should be banned for life. Refusing to pay his majesty’s trains is treason. Freeloading.
iceixia on
Not sure what they’re complaining about. I use TfW services in North wales and use the TfW App where you can buy tickets beforehand and just show the barcode on your screen to the ticket inscpector.
Ramiren on
Sure, and I’ll give them my real name and address, when they give me a timetable that isn’t entirely bullshit.
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And they will 100% guarantee ticket availability at every single station… right?
So I get to a station out in the countryside where I live? The machine isn’t working ~ how does that work? Just stand there until a engineer comes to fix it 4 days later?? Silly idea
Railway Pricing is bizarre. Not long back the machine was bust (it was broken into frequently or sometimes removed entirely until they made it card only) & I boarded the train without a ticket.
The conducter came along & when I went to buy a ticket from my station he explained to me I could save a couple of quid if I asked for a ticket from an earlier stop the train had gone through before mine.
The ticket machine at my local station is broken about 20% of the time.
Not so often that you can write it off, but often enough that you can’t count on it.
Why are people not buying them online? I literally just have the trainline app, a few taps and I’m set. I never use the machines, what’s the point.
The entirety of the U.K. would really thrive with cheap, affordable rail fares. Greed ruins the country.
Whatever happened to having a bloke walk down the train and ask for tickets before issuing you one of you didn’t have one? Surely it’s better to do that than just fine people? Like give them a chance to buy a ticket first.
I wonder how this will work when the ticket machine at a station isn’t working – will ticket inspectors trust that someone is being truthful when they say it wasn’t working, or will they be kept informed of what machines are out of order?
I got on at a park and ride station once and hadn’t bought a ticket online as I wasn’t sure what time I’d get there, but when I got there the machine wasn’t working and for some reason I couldn’t buy a ticket online from that station to the city centre. Explained to the ticket inspector and she really wasn’t happy about it.
Another time I’d bought a ticket but had unintentionally got the dates mixed up and the ticket was for the week after 🤦🏻♀️ it was only when the inspector came around and scanned my ticket that I realised, and ended up having to pay the same price for a single than I had for a return ticket. Pricing is absolutely bonkers.
Thought that this already happened. Man have I been missing out
*Shortly to be followed by:* **Rural Train Services In Wales Cut Due To Lack Of Demand**
There are some nonsense comments in that article, just but a ticket, it’s not hard. This is the highlight:
> Sarah Cogbill, 37, thinks the fines could put people off from using trains altogether. “They want people off the roads, but they need to make transport easy,” she said. “If people are going to be fined, they are going to jump in the car.”
They should be banned for life. Refusing to pay his majesty’s trains is treason. Freeloading.
Not sure what they’re complaining about. I use TfW services in North wales and use the TfW App where you can buy tickets beforehand and just show the barcode on your screen to the ticket inscpector.
Sure, and I’ll give them my real name and address, when they give me a timetable that isn’t entirely bullshit.
My name is Mr Snrub.