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From recollection from the first time round the opposite was proposed by Northern, you would essentially have a roving person who would turn up at a station for a couple of hours but with no facilities for a customer to purchase a ticket from them! I presume this must have been because their TIS...

Manchester to London is indeed valid via Sheffield

That's on the horizon with ITSO on Mobile.

LNER guards have no such arrangement as far as I am aware!

Nope, dry trains haven’t been a thing on the WCML for years, Virgin binned them.

I think it's theoretically possible to buy it at Irish Rail stations but I've not heard of much luck over the years!

That's on the Carlisle agency staff present to be ensuring it does not get to that, you have a demarcation point where if footfall has backed up and not moving you plunge the ATGs. Every station as far as I am aware should have this, whether the agency staff at Wallgate are following this is...

Any TIS should be able to do this, a customer might have to explain that it would have to be done as the fare and then the reservation separately so I'd recommend a competent ticket office.

I seem to recall, though my memory may be playing tricks on me here that part of the reason that King Long really struggled in the UK the first time round is that the spare parts availability was practically none existent coupled with some build quality issues, companies had enough of them...

Irritating as the fares from the likes of Sligo are there you just can’t issue any reservations against the ferry.

How often do you have a full Avanti service tipping off at Wigan NW?

For sure, but what will is there for TOCs to do this? Or should I say the DfT, as they’re assets which in a lot of cases have a lot of life left in them of which they cost a small fortune to install anyway.

A Travelcard is fine to be issued to Smartcard, what you cannot have is a daily ticket with the Maltese Cross (Cross London) issued to Smartcard.

No, most likely because Merseyrail sit outside of the National Rail Smartcard Scheme. They have their own HOPS (Host Operating Platform System) for ITSO.

I must admit, I didn’t think you were supposed to have Super Off-Peak tickets enabled for Smartcard! I don’t believe the ticket gates can pick up the relevant restrictions either, though I may be wrong.

Rumours are from TfL that they’re increasingly unhappy with the performance of Cubic themselves but how do you replace a supplier that is so deeply ingrained into your system!? CCST was always a bit of a bolt on at the time, sort of worked, sort of didn’t. E-Tickets were an even bigger one and...

Although my point is that currently it won’t be picked up by the Cubic gates so you‘re relying on a once in a blue moon revenue exercise to pick this up. The more people using E-Tickets (as is the RDG dream!) the more backlog there is which could eventually turn into a safety concern! S&B and...

I seem to recall this being fine for CCST, E-Tickets on the other hand...

I think this is fairly well known, LNER have moved theirs to near the Smartcard reader, for whatever reason Northern never paid for that.

Indeed, this is a polite reminder to keep this on topic