Don't think it has anything to do with the magstripe - pretty sure that the card number is taken from the chip. Sounds like you may have an intermittently faulty card and may need to get it replaced.
Oh right. I've not had any further problems with it elsewhere. Such as when using chip and pin or contactless.
LNER TVMs also have this facility.
Yes the card is thinner. You would have thought that the banks and the producers of the chip and pin equipment will be working to an industry standard. So I think it is wrong at the banks have been able to change the thickness of the card.
I seem to recall this discussion before. The overall thickness of many cards has reduced due to them no longer being embossed. The alllowed thickness of the material prior to embossing has not changed (0.68 - 0.84 mm). The industry standard is ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1.
Use contacless collection
Doesn’t work if the TVM doesn’t support it…
The end of ToD is a target, there's very little reason for it now.
But it does at Northern TVMs which is where the OP says he first had a problem.
So how would I collect my paper ticket? I've read somewhere that you can load tickets onto one of these new-fangled "mobile phone" thingeys. I've actually got one of these, but recently its battery unexpectedly ran out during the final day of a holiday (it was fully charged in the morning). So my four "digital" tickets across Scotland and from Luton Airport would all have been inaccessible. Pay again, plus £100 Penalty Fare? Maybe four times over?
Thanks for this, didn't realise, though I haven't had any problems.
You can download your ticket to your mobile device or print it out , choice is yours. Don't tar all online booking sites with the Trainline brush.
And indeed, I don't use it, except where it's the only option available which has been 4 times so far this year.
Except for those who want to travel across London. Where, naturally, the claimed "solution" is to fragment things and charge people more for the same service.
I believe all that is in hand.
And in the meantime, people need to use TVMs.
Well yes otherwise I'm back to the day job, but not for ToD. If you can use technology to book your ticket why not to present it?
We've just had a conversation about how not all tickets are displayable on that technology. Do I need to repeat it? Or you could re-read the last 6 posts.
During which conversation it's been pointed out that alternatives are available for those who prefer not to use the technology to display their ticket, so this is not a reason to maintain ToD.
And the latter part of the conversation has been about tickets that are not available as etickets.
Postal fulfiment or buy when you get to the station, you really need to see the bigger picture.
Currently, that has to be a paper (CCST) ticket and while that's the case ToD has to be maintained. When there's no ToD there will be an alternative.
Just because somebody has access to some sort of computer on which a ticket can be booked, it doesn't mean that they have access to a printer, or that the device used to book can be carried for the journey (if it is a desktop), even if the traveller owned it (maybe at work or owned by a friend/relative). This is just putting restrictions on some people's ability to travel by rail in some areas.
Ah, but what if they are homeless?
