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Topic: We need to improve facilities (Read 2411 times)
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Nick
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The least we need is a fast ticketing machine. That's the most important thing.
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Graham Ellis
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I am advised that ticket machines cost over 20,000 pounds (that may be poor advise, but I can believe it) which is the same amount of money that should buy a service for a few months. I am inclined to think that a nice sign telling you to see the conductor on the train would be a better short term solution - with a ticket machine to follow once it became clear that there wasn't enough time for the conductor to check all the tickets before Chippenham / Trowbridge  |
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Graham Ellis
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Better advise says 30,000 for a ticket machine ... and I'm suspecting that if someone came up with twice that we would have an "experimental" service for a year!
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Nick
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Is it allowed to buy tickets on the train?
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Graham Ellis
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If you board at Melksham, YES. There are no ticket selling facilities there at all (The tourist information centre was asked for four thousand pounds if they wanted a machine!) and it is not in the penalty fare area.
A sign to tell people to buy their tickets on the train would be really welcome, considering that there is so much publicity against doing so everywhere else!
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Nick
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Perhaps some monitors showing when arrivals are expected would be an improvement?
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courgettelawn
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I can imagine a Swiss Tony selling the train companies those machines... I played around with one awaiting the last train back to Salisbury from St Denys. Many major destinations are not even listed! Aberdeen, Par and others! They are counter-intuitive. So often I am queued behind someone who gets so far, then frustrated and then queues up by the ticket booths - or worse - a representative of train staff shepherds people to the machine but doesn't show them how it works.
Yes that kind of dosh on a train service much better.
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