No access to platform until 20 min before departure

[Bletchleyite]

Would a platform ticket not suffice to resolve the situation?

I can't imagine one being sold if someone is clearly going to use it to travel.

 

[zwk500]

Would a platform ticket not suffice to resolve the situation?

I can't imagine one being sold if someone is clearly going to use it to travel.

Also, if there's disruption and the platforms are presumably busy could staff refuse to sell one on crowding grounds?

Either way, it's a clumsy solution and the railway industry should instead be focusing on getting it's ducks in a row and telling passengers if there's a train departing after their booked service whether or not they are allowed to get on it.

 

[Haywain]

Would a platform ticket not suffice to resolve the situation?

Very few stations still sell platform tickets.

 

[Iskra]

Very few stations still sell platform tickets.

Tangential, but how do you know which ones do?

 

[crablab]

Tangential, but how do you know which ones do?

By asking. GWR ticket offices have the option to sell them, on the very last page of the relevant menu.

 

[PG]

There’s a good live example of this going on right now: if you check the 1230 and 1330 northbound XC departures from Coventry right now (the 1230 is due at 1338 and the 1330 at 1342 — if you had a ticket for the latter could you just jump on the former as it’s due after your scheduled departure time?).

However your journey might well be less comfortable and only result in a marginally earlier arrival at your destination. In this particular case someone going to Macclesfield would have been there 10mins earlier but thereby be ineligible for delay repay, while their actual train did qualify for delay repay.