Except the video wasn't recorded by the creator of this channel - that person just collects this sort of video and uploads them in the hope he can monetize them.
We don't know anything about the person who actually recorded that video, other than it wasn't the person whose channel it appears on.
I am frequent user of Merseyrail, though because I hold an aged person's pass I only need to use the ticket office on the rare occasions I travel in the morning peak. I have noticed in recent months that the office at my local station (Cressington) is often completely closed, with shutters down and no sign visible; this is often around 9.30 to 10.00, so I don't know if it has been open before then. More recently (only in the last week or so) I have seen the notice, with the clock face as pictured, in the window with the shutters up. I assume this is because the staff are only briefly absent. But if a passenger enters the system when the shutters are down and no obvious instruction on what to do (I know that there are posters elsewhere saying this) they can't be blamed for travelling without a ticket. If they have travelled before they might perhaps assume from the regular presence of staff collecting fares inside the barriers at eg Liverpool Central, that they are expected to pay there. It's difficult to see what else they could do.
You would then wonder why, in these circumstances, they waited for 3 minutes at the window.
Plenty of posters seem to 'know' that he is a liar who deliberately provokes confrontation on a regular basis.
Some have made that assumption in the same way that some have made assumptions about the Merseyrail staff.
The test isn't, however "if there is a ticket office close to the platform". It's whether you would miss your connection by doing so. If you only have 5 minutes to change trains, then buying a ticket could well cause you to do so.
I believe that window hasn't been used for years, the actual office is on the other platform if I remember rightly!
I had a look at the other side no office seen, I presume hidden behind an advertising board.
Just checked yes you're right, it's inside the waiting room, not where I expected at the top of the steps
For the avoidance of doubt for anyone reading this, there is no requirement for anyone to delay their journey at an intermediate station.
No it's Wallasey station.Is it Grove Road?
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If so, it appears there is one booking office and it looks like the one pictured.
I suspect just the usual poor cleaning which is endemic on Merseyrail. The whole network is consistently dirty and poorly maintained in terms of the little attention-to-detail type things.
Ah I see the confusion this is Wallasey village station, I have been to Wallasey Grove Road before but didn't really look at the ticket office.
That office looks like its on the New Brighton bound platform. I imagine the number of passengers travelling from Wallasey Village to Grove Road and New Brighton is very small hence they have obviously given up on the office on that side. Most passengers would be alighting on that platform. Those that do want to go that way would / should go to the Liverpool bound platform where the other ticket office is located.
Why should they when the notice tells tham to buy at their destination ?
I don't see how anyone could interpret the poster in any other way.
Yes but if the booking office is open on the other platform?
