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Collecting Tickets from Crianlarich without a ticket machine
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Thank you, great to hear.
"People visiting" presumably have to get to Crianlarich etc. by train in the first instance and can simply collect their return ticket at the same time as they collect the outbound.
There are also m-tickets available which I accept are not to everybody's liking but are an option.
Though if they choose to buy them through anyone other than Scotrail they may never find that out.
tram21
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Yeah that's what happened to me but I've learnt now for my next Scotland trip!
redreni
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Good that you can purchase advance tickets from Crianlarich which can't, however, be uplifted (in paper format) from Crianlarich.
Which begs the question; how many unstaffed Scotrail stations don't have any TVM provision?
That strikes me as fine in principle given there are no penalty fares, but in that case ScotRail should equip their conductors to print TOD tickets.
...apart from those walking the West Highland Way and splitting their trek at Crianlarich. I would expect quite a few bookings to be made from a mobile phone as they approach the area (or as soon as they get a signal) and that is exactly the sort of purchase you wouldn't want to have to make too far in advance...
Yes, I was thinking the same. Crianlarich gets a great deal of WHW foot traffic passing through and from experience (I've walked it- fab walk by the way!) quite a few people break at Crianlarich.
redreni
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Yeah but it's not Northern Rail. If you're leaving it that close to departure, it'll be a walk-up fare and thus it's not going to cost any more to buy on board, is it?
Unless I'm missing something?
Unless I'm missing something?
I hadn't thought of that - and wasn't really aware what type of ticket we were talking about, I thought it was about the principle of not being able to collect a ticket immediately before you travelled.
I imagine that most people nowadays would expect tickets to be available for purchase by mobile phones, also pre-bought to almost invariably be cheaper than walk-up.
The ORR figures have Crianlarich entries and exits as around 13000pa, so say possibily 6500 entries a year (17 a day). The primary destination/origin is Oban with around 15% of journeys. I can see why a TVM at the station wouldnt be considered viable. Dont really see why the conductor cant issue TOD or e tickets cant be used though.
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Joe Paxton
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For what it's worth, I think m-tickets are also offered via all of the Trainline 'white label' sites (i.e. TOC booking sites 'powered by Trainline') - as well as from the main Trainline site.
Wallsendmag
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Such as ScotRail’s lol
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Eh? If you read Deerfold's post that I quoted upthread, you'll see that possibility is very much already covered!
There's no system incompatibility or anything. Just a case of changing no to yes in a system.
Class800
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On these remote lines m ticket appears risky. When I got train Crianlarich to Tyndrum the guard could not get enough Internet to use his card machine so had to accept whatever cash I had which was less than the fare
You don't need internet to read the contents of an e-Ticket or m-Ticket.
Wallsendmag
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I think you need a web connection to display a mTicket
Oh! I had assumed you needed a connection to activate it, but after that it would be fine.
Wallsendmag
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We just need everyone to move to eTickets so much simpler
I wish
Bletchleyite
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To initially download it you do but not once downloaded.
No, the whole point of mTickets is once downloaded/activated they can be used offline without there then being a possibility of the ticket being used elsewhere by someone else, so that they could be inspected visually without a need to scan.
Of course what happens if you forget or decide to activated it at the last moment, rather than in advance?
Bletchleyite
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You don't have a valid ticket.
Somewhere like this it's best just to buy from the guard.
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...with cash.
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Surely card would be better? If their card machine isn't working you get a free trip.
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Unless you're only going a short journey there is reception on some parts of the West Highland Line, which the staff know about. On the Caledonian Sleeper home the staff were struggling to process Club Car orders as there is no reception really from Roy Bridge to Bridge of Orchy.
But yes I assume if you got lucky and they couldn't process your card payment for your journey then you would get a free trip.
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