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Mmrmartin replied to the thread GWR Contactless Readers Can See Whether Tapped?.Yes exactly. Also, as I said there's no reason the barriers couldn't be set to do online authorization at less busy times and the...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread GWR Contactless Readers Can See Whether Tapped?.That's different to sending the tap data in real time though? Anyway, many banks would process very quickly. You could just set a...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread GWR Contactless Readers Can See Whether Tapped?.?? It really wouldn't cause a delay. It's very possible to communicate with a remote (London based) server in less than 10ms to send tap...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread Future of the GWR electrification.I think it's best to think of batteries as virtually free (in railway terms) given the cost envelope they are on. In 10 years they've...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread Future of the GWR electrification.Yes but you could do these charges on areas where there is more grid capacity, eg not in city centre locations. The problem with...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread Future of the GWR electrification.I suspect all trains will become battery trains in the next few decades, even just for backup purposes for 10km range say in the event...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread German public transport ticketing post D-Ticket.Thanks for the link. This is what I mean - it must take so much effort to put this system together, and that's just one region...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread German public transport ticketing post D-Ticket.No I do get that - but it must cost a fortune to run all the "standard" ticketing infrastructure and if the D-Ticket is going to...
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Mmrmartin posted the thread German public transport ticketing post D-Ticket in International Transport.It seems to me that the transport ticketing situation is a bit odd post Deutschland Ticket? Obviously it's great that the Deutschland...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread St Pancras E Gates.No it's not that. The problem is the PT immigration agency (used to be called SEF) is in a perpetual state of serious crisis and cannot...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread NRW/Koln for a few days.Will see if it 'resets' itself overnight. Also wrote an email to their app support but I doubt we'll get a response in time. Tried the...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread St Pancras E Gates.Yeah I totally agree. I suspect also because Europeans coming to the UK get a very smooth process (all my European friends commented how...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread St Pancras E Gates.I thought it required at minimum finger print readers? I know some small Spanish airports have them (with no gates) but Greek ones...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread St Pancras E Gates.If that's true that the EU doesn't realise what a terrible impact their non-EU border checks have on their tourism sector then I am...
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Mmrmartin replied to the thread High fares - The issue that won't go away.To me the real "issue" isn't so much (super) off peak fares, they "seem" expensive to a layperson but usually are not terrible value for...