lancededcena
Member
I was on Peterborough station last week ordering a East Midlands Ranger (last time I ordered one in 2019, shown to the right) and they gave me it in paper roll (or as I call it, bog roll) format. I didn't ask anything about it as I was eager to get on with my bashes.
The QR code did not work in any East Midlands Railway station that I've been on (Derby, Nottingham and Leicester) and it only works in LNER stations (Peterborough). A bloke did try to scan it at Derby and it came up with the correct details of the ticket but the gates haven't been programmed in to let me through.
I really cannot understand the rationale of migrating over to the roll format with rangers (not sure if it works with rovers). I hope my long and valuable rover ticket isn't printed in bog roll format when I come down to York, but that being said I heard that £200+ worth tickets are being printed in paper roll too!
Is LNER alone at doing this weird format and not having it work with other TOC barriers, and is there still equipment there to print out old ones or do I have to haggle a bit with the ticket salesperson?
The QR code did not work in any East Midlands Railway station that I've been on (Derby, Nottingham and Leicester) and it only works in LNER stations (Peterborough). A bloke did try to scan it at Derby and it came up with the correct details of the ticket but the gates haven't been programmed in to let me through.
I really cannot understand the rationale of migrating over to the roll format with rangers (not sure if it works with rovers). I hope my long and valuable rover ticket isn't printed in bog roll format when I come down to York, but that being said I heard that £200+ worth tickets are being printed in paper roll too!
Is LNER alone at doing this weird format and not having it work with other TOC barriers, and is there still equipment there to print out old ones or do I have to haggle a bit with the ticket salesperson?