Ticket Gates at Wellingborough

[DaventryRabbit]

Apologies if there has been a thread about this elsewhere before, but I am at Wellingborough Station and since I was last here ticket Gates have been Installed. All well and Good, except for the fact that the Gates are positioned such that one of the 2 ticket Office Windows is INSIDE the Gateline! Not an issue today as the barriers are Open but could be a bit limiting at busy times with long queues at One Window...
Is there anywhere else where this is the case? I can think of 2 to start with, Rochdale and Blackburn...

 

[LowLevel]

Apologies if there has been a thread about this elsewhere before, but I am at Wellingborough Station and since I was last here ticket Gates have been Installed. All well and Good, except for the fact that the Gates are positioned such that one of the 2 ticket Office Windows is INSIDE the Gateline! Not an issue today as the barriers are Open but could be a bit limiting at busy times with long queues at One Window...
Is there anywhere else where this is the case? I can think of 2 to start with, Rochdale and Blackburn...

Not sure they ever open two windows now.

 

[yorkie]

Is there anywhere else where this is the case? I can think of 2 to start with, Rochdale and Blackburn...

We had threads for that before; the most recent can be found here:

Ticket office inside barriers

I notice Rochdale ticket office is inside the barriers. How does that work? Do they only sell tickets in advance for people who have passed through the barrier? Or, for example, people renewing their season ticket on the way home?

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Let's not do that all over again!

In my experience very few people use ticket offices these days; e-tickets are taking over (see other threads on that topic)

 

[Railcar]

Yes, I use ticket ofices. Ticket machines are badly designed - they won't allow off-peak day return tickets to be bought before 0930 and they won't allow a Senior railcard to be used before 0930. Also, the machine assumes that I want to buy a ticket from the station where the machine is situated (the machines at East croydon do not offer 'Boundary of Zone 6' as a starting point).
By using the ticket office at east Croydon I can get a 'Boundary of Zone 6 to Eastbourne' off-peak day return (with Senior rail card and showing my Freedom Pass) at 0900.
I'm saving money and keeping someone in a job.

 

[yorkie]

Yes, I use ticket ofices. Ticket machines are badly designed - they won't allow off-peak day return tickets to be bought before 0930 and they won't allow a Senior railcard to be used before 0930.

I don't think all ticket machines do this? But that's a reason why ticket machines should be better designed, not to keep ticket offices open.

Also, the machine assumes that I want to buy a ticket from the station where the machine is situated (the machines at East croydon do not offer 'Boundary of Zone 6' as a starting point).

Good ticket machines have the option to buy from another location. I thought GTR machines offered this?

By using the ticket office at east Croydon I can get a 'Boundary of Zone 6 to Eastbourne' off-peak day return (with Senior rail card and showing my Freedom Pass) at 0900.
I'm saving money and keeping someone in a job.

But the solution is to make those tickets available by other means (I note there is a class action claim against various train companies for making these tickets difficult to buy); if you start your journey at a station which does not have that facility then you may buy on board without penalty.

 

[Railcar]

Good ticket machines have the option to buy from another location. I thought GTR machines offered this?

No. I tried.

But the solution is to make those tickets available by other means (I note there is a class action claim against various train companies for making these tickets difficult to buy); if you start your journey at a station which does not have that facility then you may buy on board without penalty.

A train on the Quarry Line passes the Greater London Boundary (the boundary of Zone 6) at Line Speed. There are often no ticket checks by the OBS so I would arrive at Eastbourne without a ticket to open the barrier. The ticket office at Eastbourne is outside the barriers.

 

[DaventryRabbit]

I don't think all ticket machines do this? But that's a reason why ticket machines should be better designed, not to keep ticket offices open.


Good ticket machines have the option to buy from another location. I thought GTR machines offered this?


But the solution is to make those tickets available by other means (I note there is a class action claim against various train companies for making these tickets difficult to buy); if you start your journey at a station which does not have that facility then you may buy on board without penalty.

LNWR Ticket Machines sell tickets from other Origins. I use this Facility a lot. There is a button in the bottom left corner "Tickets from other stations" then type in orgin and destination. As easy as buying a normal ticket.

 

[AY1975]

Are there also gates at Kettering or Market Harborough?

 

[DaventryRabbit]

Are there also gates at Kettering or Market Harborough?

No sign of any at Market Harborough when I was last there (about a month ago). Couldn't say about Kettering.

 

[Chriso]

Are there also gates at Kettering or Market Harborough?

Kettering is also gated now, however I don’t think they are actually in use yet. They were all open when I went through AM and PM on Tuesday

 

[HarryF]

No sign of any at Market Harborough when I was last there (about a month ago). Couldn't say about Kettering.

Corby had barriers when I last visited which weren’t in use - but nothing at Market Harborough

 

[plugwash]

Manchester oxford road has 3 windows outside the barriers andone inside I presume the thinking with putting a window inside the barriers is to have it act as an "excess fares" window.