Snap! (See my earlier post above).
The more the railway provides 'convenience' facilities, the more some will become so dependent on them that to some, their failure to show a valid ticket becomes the railway's fault because the sockets weren't working. (Also, something that unscrupulous travellers will seek to use instead of paying for a ticket in the first place.) Then there will be the stream of compensation claims for lack of access to other stored tickets, and of course the trauma from their embarrassment at having to explain why they couldn't show a valid ticket in front of all those other passengers.
The reason for them not working is frequently due the circuits being tripped through people using dodgy electrical equipment.
The LNER trial hasn't actually made the fares that much simpler though, with the advent of nonsensical 70min flex tickets. In any case I'm talking about revealed preferences, which are very different to what people moan about for likes on Twitter.
I would rather a non functioning plug socket on the train be seen like a non functioning TVM, the equivalent for the e ticket generation - but we're a long way from that. Hence, I always bring print outsThe more the railway provides 'convenience' facilities, the more some will become so dependent on them that to some, their failure to show a valid ticket becomes the railway's fault because the sockets weren't working. (Also, something that unscrupulous travellers will seek to use instead of paying for a ticket in the first place.) Then there will be the stream of compensation claims for lack of access to other stored tickets, and of course the trauma from their embarrassment at having to explain why they couldn't show a valid ticket in front of all those other passengers.
I'd heard that, but the TM did state he'd tried to reset the fuses. Not sure what the root cause actually ended up being.
There is wireless charging on SWR 444s in first class. I can't say if it works because I don't have a compatible phone.
I've always found wireless charging to be really hit and miss.
Always seems really slow to me
However, if you found out an acquaintance was making a particular journey and you knew their home address then it would be easy enough to "steal" their ticket. It would need to be backed up by something like having to insert any credit card, which would allow the person to be traced if it turned out to be fraudulent (unless they'd stolen that too).
Airlines are really not a suitable comparison because there are different security requirements and strict capacity constraints.
If there's a niche and someone can exploit it to their own advantage, then they probably will.
Maybe so for airlines, but not for TOD. If security requires a booking reference and some ID in the form of a credit card, then the same ought to apply to any process of printing e-tickets.
You can take it from me... they are... picky if they want to work, sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, and the Guard cannot do anything about them
You mean like I do, and I see many other people doing, when travelling to/from work?
It's such a niche way of defrauding someone that it's not even worth considering.
And that's still possible with most 'legacy' airlines.
Although you have to position your phone in exactly the right spot to get it to work. If the tilt causes your phone to slide off that spot, it stops charging! It's also very slow - typically charging at around 500mA, which will take forever and day to get you fully charged. I much prefer to use my own 30W USB-C charger.
Problems on a forum and real life problems are two very different things
I rather like Scotrail’s system. You can buy a ticket on the app and then transfer it to their ITSO Smartcard (and various other Scottish smart cards) using the phone’s NFC facility. Then you have the ticket on something that can’t go flat. You can use the app to read back the card’s contents as well. I used this when I was last in Glasgow. Didn’t have access to a printer as a backup.I made a second trip where I pressed the wrong button on the app and was forced to pick the ticket up at a machine. That involved quite a wait in the queue. Unfortunately doesn’t work on all flows and the system seems to be isolated to Scotland.
