In the past when the route I worked had weekend blockades on for a number of weeks, I noted I was selling tickets from A-B in stead of the more popular A-C journey. Surprise surprise the B-C leg was on a bus.
Simple solution to that as there was just one bus an hour.
I asked the driver to hang on 2 mins before releasing the doors on my behalf on arrival at the terminating station where buses took over. This gave me time to pop to the booking office window and recommend it was a good time for the clerk to take a break. I would then run over to the Bus entrance holding a ticket stamper ready to re-check tickets
.
Bus left about 20 out of 80 passengers behind as they did not have valid tickets for onward travel and the booking office was shut for 10 mins
. It ended up costing these passengers an extra hours wait and additional money as a ticket from A-C is cheaper than buying a A-B and B-C ticket.