shredder1
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The ticket office was again closed on Manchester Piccadilly, so apart from buying a return to Crewe from the ticket machines on the station, no one could work out how to buy a West Midland Day Rover ticket, so I was told to see the train manager on the 05.11.
I caught up with someone who said he was the train manager and he told me to jump on the train and buy one in Birmingham, so I jumped on the train.
Just to be on the safe side I also jumped out at Crewe to try and buy one, but that ticket office was also closed, so I got back on the same train and decided to ride through to Birmingham New Street, shortly after leaving Crewe however the ticket inspector came along and I explained the situation and told her that the train manager said he couldn’t issue a West Midland day rover ticket and told me buy one in Birmingham.
She however told me she was the train manager and that the guy who said he was the train manager was actually an assessor?
She also said she could issue a ticket, (a West Midland day rover), but went on to say that they are not supposed to discount a railcard when you buy a ticket on the train, but she did sell me one and with the full discount at £19, which was fine, but I don’t think the information she gave me was correct.
Not everyone can buy tickets on line, some older people simply wouldn’t know how to do it and secondly how can you predict a ticket office will be closed when its listed as opening at 04.30?
The ticket office was again closed on Manchester Piccadilly, so apart from buying a return to Crewe from the ticket machines on the station, no one could work out how to buy a West Midland Day Rover ticket, so I was told to see the train manager on the 05.11.
I caught up with someone who said he was the train manager and he told me to jump on the train and buy one in Birmingham, so I jumped on the train.
Just to be on the safe side I also jumped out at Crewe to try and buy one, but that ticket office was also closed, so I got back on the same train and decided to ride through to Birmingham New Street, shortly after leaving Crewe however the ticket inspector came along and I explained the situation and told her that the train manager said he couldn’t issue a West Midland day rover ticket and told me buy one in Birmingham.
She however told me she was the train manager and that the guy who said he was the train manager was actually an assessor?
She also said she could issue a ticket, (a West Midland day rover), but went on to say that they are not supposed to discount a railcard when you buy a ticket on the train, but she did sell me one and with the full discount at £19, which was fine, but I don’t think the information she gave me was correct.
Not everyone can buy tickets on line, some older people simply wouldn’t know how to do it and secondly how can you predict a ticket office will be closed when its listed as opening at 04.30?
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