Trivia: stations which "discriminate" against passengers holding e-Tickets

[Adam Williams]

Using "discriminate" very loosely here but I'm interested in (National Rail) stations with gatelines where there is at least one gate that accommodates customers holding CCST (orange credit-card sized) tickets but not barcoded tickets (I don't really care about ITSO for this discussion), meaning customers selecting e-Tickets are limited to the number of gates they can use and have to queue to use a smaller subset of electronic gates.

I'll kick off with Marylebone - I believe there are a non-trivial number of gates on the left hand side as you leave with no barcode scanners, but all gates are capable of working with CCST magstripe tickets.

 

[lxfe_mxtterz]

Got off the train at Battersea Park for the first time the other week (using an eTicket as I was in a rush and didn't have time to collect tickets at my outbound station). Was quite surprised to find that the gateline had no barcode scanners at all, and as such had to grab the attention of a member of staff to let me out.

 

[Alex365Dash]

I'm interested in (National Rail) stations with gatelines where there is at least one gate that accommodates customers holding CCST (orange credit-card sized) tickets but not barcoded tickets (I don't really care about ITSO for this discussion), meaning customers selecting e-Tickets are limited to the number of gates they can use and have to queue to use a smaller subset of electronic gates.

Got off the train at Battersea Park for the first time the other week

GTR tend to do this sort of thing quite a bit I've noticed - at Brighton I'd say roughly a quarter to a third of the gates are CCST/ITSO only, at smaller barriered stations along the West Coastway (about 2-4 gates) I tend to find the only barcode scanner is on the wide gate.

 

[Bletchleyite]

Harpenden on the car park side has a scanner only on the wide gate which is set to operate one way or the other. It was set to exit only and so I nearly missed my intended train due to having to wait for a member of staff to bother to answer the intercom. Very poor.

 

[Domh245]

Wimbledon is quite bad for barcode readers if I remember rightly - certainly at the tramlink end it's just the wide gate that has them

 

[miklcct]

Clapham Junction - the northern gateline (platform 1 & 2) has a number of gates which don't have readers, or have out of use readers.

 

[AJW12]

Think Brighton has been the worst one, particularly in Summer when it's already very overcrowded. You see the platform announced for a service to/via the capital and then a massive crowd forms around the only barrier(s) that take the scanners.

I've almost always had problems with the barriers at Glasgow Central too with barcode tickets.

 

[A Challenge]

I'm not sure how many readers there are, but it seemed some of the chaos when I was at St Pancras on Sunday was caused by issues with barcode tickets - not helped by putting up the platform for the late running 15:35 Nottingham for which the inbound hadn't arrived at about 15:25 before the departure of the 15:32 Sheffield, meaning people were trying to go through for both trains.

 

[td97]

Manchester Victoria with its awful e-ticket scanners

 

[urbophile]

Merseyrail doesn't allow e-tickets anywhere on the system.

 

[miklcct]

Merseyrail doesn't allow e-tickets anywhere on the system.

Are there any flows with e-tickets enabled, normally taken on non-Merseyrail services, but nonetheless have validity on Merseyrail?

 

[Trackman]

Manchester Victoria with its awful e-ticket scanners

I would use stronger language, but that's not allowed on here.
I went there about a month ago for the first time in years, could it work? No.. Gate guy said 'we know' and laughed. .. 'try a few times more'
Plus such an odd place for a scanner too ...

 

[tomuk]

e-tickets they're the future.

 

[Lewis10104]

Last time I was there Haymarket only had QR code scanners on a couple of the barriers (ironically next to a poster promoting e-tickets)