Picked that up from the newsletter for retired staff.
According to the Rail Delivery Group, you will be able to buy Priv tickets online from next year
Good that it does sleepers, but according to the FAQ it won't be accepting American Express cards which makes it pretty useless for me...
From the FAQs it looks like they will initially be ToD (i.e. collection) only, and that eTickets will come later.This will be very handy. Will tickets require collection / printing at machines or can they be displayed on a smartphone?
That isn't a problem of ToD, it's a problem of CCST tickets.ToD ... makes ticket reuse/fraud etc. harder to detect.
I find this no surprise at all. It would have been astonishing if this had not happened.eTickets will be offered (where possible) from the launch date
From the FAQs it looks like they will initially be ToD (i.e. collection) only, and that eTickets will come later.
I suppose they wouldn't be able to roll it out nationwide otherwise, as there are still several TOCs (Greater Anglia, TfW etc.) that don't allow flows involving 'their patch' to be retailed as eTickets.
That said, Merseyrail doesn't allow ToD bookings to be collected at most of their TVMs either, plus ToD has much higher retailing fees and makes ticket reuse/fraud etc. harder to detect.
I suppose it's six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Ah ok. That will leave just a handful of journeys with no fulfilment option (e.g. Scotrail and TfW flows from stations with no ticket machine).Merseyrail now offers ToD at the booking office, though it took them long enough.
Yes they will.I hope that PRIV bookings on the Caledonian Sleeper will be available via this facility.