BanburyBlue
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I'm not sure if this is across all of Chiltern stations, or just Banbury, but you can no longer buy tickets for the car park at the ticket office window.
It used to be useful when buying tickets in advance to be able to get a car park ticket at the same time. Now they insist you go to the machine in the booking hall, or use Ringo. This can be quite inconvenient.
I don't use Ringo (I believe you have to pay to use it?), so in my case I now have to use the machine. Meaning that if you buy a train ticket at the window, you then have to queue again at the machine to buy your car park ticket.
If collecting a ticket in advance (sold online), you can obviously pick up your car park ticket at the same time. However, the machine only sells car park tickets from the afternoon before the day of travel. So if travelling on a Monday, I now have to make a special trip down on the Sunday to collect my ticket.
I know I could buy on the day, but the traffic is so bad here some mornings, that you'd have to leave home super early to ensure you have sufficient time.
Is this now standard practice, or is it just Chiltern?
It used to be useful when buying tickets in advance to be able to get a car park ticket at the same time. Now they insist you go to the machine in the booking hall, or use Ringo. This can be quite inconvenient.
I don't use Ringo (I believe you have to pay to use it?), so in my case I now have to use the machine. Meaning that if you buy a train ticket at the window, you then have to queue again at the machine to buy your car park ticket.
If collecting a ticket in advance (sold online), you can obviously pick up your car park ticket at the same time. However, the machine only sells car park tickets from the afternoon before the day of travel. So if travelling on a Monday, I now have to make a special trip down on the Sunday to collect my ticket.
I know I could buy on the day, but the traffic is so bad here some mornings, that you'd have to leave home super early to ensure you have sufficient time.
Is this now standard practice, or is it just Chiltern?