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So the most likely explanation is that it was an anti fraud measure, I say was as Dren has shown that it doesn't appear to still happen.
This begs the question as to why they stopped it for Doncaster and why wasn't it used at other stations?
Interesting, I wonder if it actually signifies anything, or if it's simply a case of some staff putting a full stop at the end when entering the station names onto the system and others not.
I've never had one, but was told earlier that this was the case by someone who used to regularly travel to Doncaster. I'm just wondering out of idle curiosity really as to why this would be done.
I've just been told that any tickets going to or via Doncaster always had a full stop after the word 'Doncaster'.
Does anyone know the reason for this anomoly? Does it still happen?
Thanks.