FamilyVacation
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If boarding at an unattended station like Tywyn, where there are no ticket machines, can you purchase a ticket from the conductor? And if so, is it cash only or are credit cards accepted?
However if there is no ticket machine there may be a permit to travel machine in which case you would insert coins up-to the value of your ticket and exchange the permit at the earliest opportunity.
Or put 5p/10p in the machine and pay the difference at the earliest opportunity.
Well I did say up-to for a reason, but whether you are supposed to or not well...
Your previous posts suggest that you already hold Advance tickets for your journeys to and from Tywyn, so for local journeys during your vacation it may be worth while investigating the range of local rail passes, which give you unlimited travel within a defined area for a certain period. Depending on the amount of travelling you intend to do, they may work out significantly cheaper than buying separate tickets for each journey.If boarding at an unattended station like Tywyn, where there are no ticket machines, can you purchase a ticket from the conductor? And if so, is it cash only or are credit cards accepted?
a) You're asked by the ticket booth chappie where you've arrived from, so they are operating on an 'honesty' basis. I wonder how many people arrive from Oban or Fort William (for example) but say they travelled from a far closer station like Garelochead?
b) If you're departing Queen Street on a train, you can just get straight on your next train without having paid anything for the service you've arrived on.
It would be interesting to know why the conductor doesn't actually sell tickets on that service. There's enough time between stations, unlike on suburban routes.
It is true some people lie. Sometimes they are prosecuted for it as blocks may be in place at the station they falsely claim to have travelled from.a) You're asked by the ticket booth chappie where you've arrived from, so they are operating on an 'honesty' basis. I wonder how many people arrive from Oban or Fort William (for example) but say they travelled from a far closer station like Garelochead?
Yes, that is correct. Depending on the connection time, that next opportunity to pay may well be on the next train.b) If you're departing Queen Street on a train, you can just get straight on your next train
They'd pay for the entire journey on the next train. As 142094 says, if they only claimed to have started their journey at Queen St, questions may be asked!without having paid anything for the service you've arrived on.
That is the most likely explanation. Or that it had run out of stock!Maybe in one case a broken Avantix? I've seen it happen a few times, though not day by day.
Arriva guards will happily sell tickets to people boarding at Chester once the barrier staff go home, so you have nothing to worry about on the Cambrian line.If boarding at an unattended station like Tywyn, where there are no ticket machines, can you purchase a ticket from the conductor? And if so, is it cash only or are credit cards accepted?