I noticed on Wednesday that the poster saying the footbridge was closed did not have a map of the diversion. It's the same poster as used in the past when staff have been on strike.
I wonder if different teams deal with those posters compared to the trail footbridge closed posters.
Given footbridge closed posters exist, with a map, perhaos they could share the map with whoever makes the other strike posters.
After all the station was open, just only via the front.
This morning I was travelling to Woking. There are only two ticket machines at the back and one was out of service, so a queue had formed.
There were two people manning the barrier but neither of them were obviously trained to sell tickets.
In the past you'd just ask to go across the footbridge so you could use many of the other ticket machines available at the front but now to do that you'd need to walk around the road, which obviously is much longer.
Before this footbridge change, there was almost only ever one person at the barrier. I don't know if the barriers are now manned by two peiole for as long as someone is there or whether there is just one person some of the time.
I saw people asking to go across the footbridge and being told no. I am certain that late at night it is not manned.
With regards to buying tickets, I appreciate one can buy tickets online but having to select journeys is slower and annoying. As I had the SWR app I thought I'd try that but I couldn't remember my password. I also had my glasses in my bag.
At which point I decided to just wait. I am aware there is a work around on the Southern branded Web site that avoids the need to select times so I should make an effort to learn that.