Adam Williams
Established Member
Merseyrail's "E-Tickets" are hilarious, they're literally just a QR code with a URL inside pointing at a page that says the ticket is valid.There is some irony here that Merseyrail issue these unique, non-standard e-tickets (that aren't really e-tickets) and expect Transport for Wales at Chester to inspect them and manually allow customers through the gates, with no means of verifying they aren't counterfeit or fraudulent, whilst occasionally causing congestion, meanwhile being awkward with proper National Rail operators about the use of real e-tickets at their own stations for the same reasons.
You'd hope that they're being read with a special application which enforces that the URL starts with daysaver.merseyrail.org (if not, honestly I can't think of something more trivially defeated by anyone with half a brain) but I'm not sure they could organise a piss-up in a brewery - let alone write an app which ensures that a QR code actually points at merseyrail.org and not merseyrаil.org.