mTickets

IanL

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Re: mTickets

« Reply #15 on: September 23, 2015, 20:42:53 »

Quote from: ChrisB on September 23, 2015, 20:01:28

And keeping your phone charged throughout!

When the power sockets in the trains don't work 80% of the time!


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Surrey 455

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Re: mTickets

« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2015, 20:47:26 »

I do think it odd that national Express charge an extra 50p for an m ticket when the likes of Ryanair and easyjet, wilts and Dorset bus company do not. You get the impression that they are afraid of the digital age.


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LiskeardRich

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Re: mTickets

« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2015, 21:20:37 »

Quote from: Surrey 455 on September 23, 2015, 20:47:26

Megabus have it even better, you just have to show the driver your reference, no tickets. Record your reference in anyway you feel like and driver verifies your reference.


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Henry

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Re: mTickets

« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2015, 08:09:10 »

With all this advancement in technology, my greatest fear is that the pleasant
gentleman at Totnes booking office may well become extinct.


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Bmblbzzz

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Re: mTickets

« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2015, 11:56:36 »

Quote from: paul7755 on September 23, 2015, 16:09:50

I think the main reason the various TOCs^▸ only offer m-tickets, e-tickets or various printouts for Advance fares is that they can send info to the specific booked train's guard that allows him to know how many to expect to check. Same as SWT^▸ do with their 'megatrain' booking reference numbers.

If you allowed an m-ticket for any walk up fare, every guard on a number of possible trains would all need the same information, and there'd also need to be a watertight system to avoid duplication...

Yes, you'd need some system to avoid people using the same ticket on multiple journeys. Presumably Swedish railways have some way of doing this. If not, then as paper tickets are supposedly to be phased out within the next ten years (thread passim), that implies that fares not linked to specific trains are also to be phased out, which would make rather a mess on certain lines where there's nothing else.


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