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I doubt you could make advance tickets collectable from the guard.
Hull Trains do in fact offer this facility.
I guess it is a much easier thing to manage with 90 departures a week.
I doubt you could make advance tickets collectable from the guard.
Relevance?
If you had a reservation it would be obvious if you were using an additional copy of the ticket (you would either be travelling at the wrong time or you would already be aboard).
An Anytime Return print at home ticket would almost be print at home money (an idea to suggest to the banks maybe?).
The train ticket question was genuine as I have no idea how European print at home train tickets work, but IIRC you need reservations for TGV and AVE services.
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Would not having ID make the ticket invalid? If so, do you think there would be an increase in people coming to this site seeking advice for, and moaning about, a 'genuine error' that is 'completely unfair to the passenger'?
Equally, what ID would I have to carry around with me? Is my library card enough?
That would breach the NRCoC (except where tickets are already non-refundable).
Hull Trains do in fact offer this facility.
I guess it is a much easier thing to manage with 90 departures a week.
Unfortunately, despite being outdated, we are stuck with Advantix for the foreseeable future
Do RSH (I assue you mean Red Spotted Hankey) charge a booking fee like The Trainline? If not, how do they make their money? And who runs it? Is it a NationalRail/ATOC service?
, but most TOCs don't for some reason.
And I'm told that Atos are currently working on the second hardware refresh for Avantix.
And yes, a new version is due out later in the year, which I am told will remove the function to swipe and sign cards and obtain manual authorisation - allegedly due to changes in card security measures imposed by card issuers.
That could be tricky for some foreign visitors. I don't think roll out of chip and pin or chip and sign worldwide is complete.
How? Tesco and others have developed software (that runs within a browser) that ensures you'll only ever be able to print one single ticket, or in the case of Tesco and the like - unique discount vouchers.
That could be tricky for some foreign visitors. I don't think roll out of chip and pin or chip and sign worldwide is complete.
That sounds awful. "Special software" usually means to me that it'll only work on a small selection of operating systems, and install who knows what..
I expect Safari does on iOS.
Do they always check IDs?
How many departures a week do most unstaffed, un-machined, stations have in comparison?Hull Trains do in fact offer this facility.
I guess it is a much easier thing to manage with 90 departures a week.
Since you can just buy walk-up tickets on the train, print-at-home tickets for only ADVANCE tickets would be a nice idea.As pointed out, print at home is easier for Advance tickets because each ticket can carry a unique code and the checker on the train can compare this with a list of codes issued for that train and detect any invalid or duplicate tickets. This does however require on-train checking and not just barriers! It also means that the print-at-home tickets can be restricted to trains where the staff have the relevant checking equipment.
It's more tricky for walk-up tickets, because to avoid the photocopying problem each checking point needs an always-on data link to the back office. Otherwise two people could use the same ticket on different trains at about the same time.
How many departures a week do most unstaffed, un-machined, stations have in comparison?
My point is that I would think unstaffed stations generally speaking will have fewer departures than staffed ones. If it is relatively easy to implement for TOCs with few departures perhaps it is also be relatively easy to implement for unstaffed stations with few departures.Your point being?
I was pointing out that HT is a TOC where this could be implemented fairly easily as it had few departures.
My point is that I would think unstaffed stations generally speaking will have fewer departures than staffed ones. If it is relatively easy to implement for TOCs with few departures perhaps it is also be relatively easy to implement for unstaffed stations with few departures.