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Post by jimobasa on Oct 27, 2016 10:27:00 GMT 1
There's a bloke on one of the rail forums convinced that putting his annual season through the ticket gate every day damages it and gradually makes it almost illegible. Surely the ticket gate is interested only in the information contained within the magnetic strip on the back and does not damage a ticket in any way. www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2753223#post2753223 |
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Post by Burnside on Oct 27, 2016 10:52:03 GMT 1
The print fading is more likely due to the coating on the ticket reacting (for want of a better word) with the plastic wallet. The wallets were reconfigured with a different combination of plastic a year or two ago as this problem was discovered with the move to thermal printing but there are plenty of the older wallets still around.
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Post by guyarab on Nov 2, 2016 15:48:23 GMT 1
Slightly off-topic, but relevant nonetheless I believe, is the issue of new style rail tickets. If you haven't seen one yet they are much wider, longer and thinner than the standard and will not fit into a wallet (railcard type). Neither can they be slotted into the machines at the barrier. A card reader is being developed to suit the new tickets.
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Post by deerfold on Nov 2, 2016 18:46:20 GMT 1
Slightly off-topic, but relevant nonetheless I believe, is the issue of new style rail tickets. If you haven't seen one yet they are much wider, longer and thinner than the standard and will not fit into a wallet (railcard type). Neither can they be slotted into the machines at the barrier. A card reader is being developed to suit the new tickets. Of course any sensible company would have installed readers before issuing the tickets. |
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Post by guyarab on Nov 6, 2016 21:31:22 GMT 1
Any sensible company would have kept size uniform with machines and wallets. Credit/debit cards, Oyster cards, in fact most cards are a universal size, approximately 85x55mm., so why not with the new tickets?
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Post by biroguy on Jan 4, 2017 9:46:23 GMT 1
Any sensible company would have kept size uniform with machines and wallets. Credit/debit cards, Oyster cards, in fact most cards are a universal size, approximately 85x55mm., so why not with the new tickets? I had the pleasure of receiving one of the new totally user unfriendly paper tickets yesterday! These things are huge, they crease and we all know how unreliable bar code readers are even if the code is perfectly straight and uncreased! Total mayhem at the barriers. Since Arriva took over things have gone backwards, same old tatty trains, fare increases, these awful paper tickets and the ditching of local identity timetables ( I`ll blame Metro for that). |
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Post by adam on Jan 4, 2017 11:02:48 GMT 1
Wonderful aren't they!!!
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Jan 7, 2017 23:40:18 GMT 1
Any sensible company would have kept size uniform with machines and wallets. Credit/debit cards, Oyster cards, in fact most cards are a universal size, approximately 85x55mm., so why not with the new tickets? I had the pleasure of receiving one of the new totally user unfriendly paper tickets yesterday! These things are huge, they crease and we all know how unreliable bar code readers are even if the code is perfectly straight and uncreased! Total mayhem at the barriers. Since Arriva took over things have gone backwards, same old tatty trains, fare increases, these awful paper tickets and the ditching of local identity timetables ( I`ll blame Metro for that). I read in a railway magazine that other companies are also introducing these paper tickets, especially when issued when train guards. I got one on Tuesday and, while this was Northern, I realise it is not specifically their decision. I am in agreement with you in not liking the tickets though! |
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Post by adam on Jan 9, 2017 14:41:39 GMT 1
Most if not all Arriva TOCs are getting or have got the STAR machine
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Post by biroguy on Jan 10, 2017 14:21:48 GMT 1
Is it just Arriva that are introducing these awful tickets? I would imagine this style of ticket would be impossible to issue from a ticket machine on a platform. Thus far Arriva/Deutche Bahn have not delivered anything positive to their passengers in the North other than a fare increase and awful paper tickets, We know new trains will appear but not on my line, we`re getting old Scottish/GWR cast offs assuming they are able to part with them? The most we can hope for is an old electric unit converted to hybrid. Rant over!
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Post by guyarab on Jan 15, 2017 21:22:58 GMT 1
I got my paper ticket at Dewsbury. The ticket office was busy and mine came from one of the two peripatetic First Group attendants (and they were on the same train as me to sell their wares to more unfortunate souls at another location).
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Post by pontecarlo on Jan 16, 2017 15:01:26 GMT 1
I travelled down to tick off the Gainsborough line at the weekend (sudbury) and the greater anglia guards were issuing the new style tickets
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Post by adam on Jan 17, 2017 9:13:31 GMT 1
Greater anglia also have a card ticket printer for tickets into london
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Post by biroguy on Mar 24, 2017 23:27:40 GMT 1
Well I was informed that the bar code scanners are now working at the Leeds Station Ticket Barriers, lot`s of stressed people with paper tickets and apps on their phones, neither seemed to work! Staff on the barriers say it`s a disaster. Arriva are not delivering a better service.
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Post by adam on Mar 25, 2017 17:31:27 GMT 1
Arriva have been let down to a certain extent with tickets. The avantix ticket machines with the card tickets were out of contract so couldn't be maintained anymore so the Star machines were rushed in without other things been in place. The scanners on the barrier is the contractor who maintain the barriers falling behind with the upgrades much to the annoyance of Northern management
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