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« Reply #255 on: October 03, 2010, 22:12:59 »
How to do it wrong - yet again  Roll Eyes Shocked Angry :

When one of your ticket vending machines has been ... erm, 'terminated' ...



... you should take positive action to preserve the other machine at that site:



However: suggesting that there may be any cash in this machine - when there is not, and has not been for nearly two years now, is absolutely crass:



Is it so difficult for FGW▸ (First Great Western) to do what BT have done, on the telephone kiosk adjoining the approach path to Platform 1 at NLS▸ (Nailsea & Backwell station), to explain, in simple terms, that 'there is no cash in this machine'?



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« Reply #256 on: October 03, 2010, 22:20:02 »
and when the other is "out of service" as it was today so you have to proceed to reading on an iphone/ipad email confirmation of the advance ticket
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« Reply #257 on: October 03, 2010, 22:49:25 »
So with 'CASH EMPTIED DAILY' are the TVMs▸ (Ticket Vending Machine) at Nailsea & Backwell now accepting readies again? (When they work, that is!)

Hardly going to make them less attractive to future attacks. Unless there is some other secret counter-measure now built in.....

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« Reply #258 on: October 03, 2010, 22:57:43 »
Oh, for the umpteenth time:

The ticket vending machine(s) at Nailsea and Backwell Station have been disabled from accepting any cash transactions for nearly two years now.

THESE MACHINES DO NOT CONTAIN ANY CASH

FGW▸ (First Great Western) have just gone and stuck the wrong / inappropriate / stupid sticker on our one surviving machine.





Sorry to go on.  Chris.  Tongue
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #259 on: October 03, 2010, 23:13:45 »
....and relax.  Grin

I didn't read the text under the photos and assumed that FGW▸ (First Great Western) had repaired the machine and reinstated cash acceptance.

Sorry. I hope I didn't raise your blood pressure too much.  Wink
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« Reply #260 on: October 03, 2010, 23:23:36 »
No you didn't; no they haven't; and yes you did.  Grin
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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« Reply #261 on: October 06, 2010, 00:10:43 »
Does rainwater affect the ticket machines? Seemingly did at Earley the other day. Think they could make it a little more protected?
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« Reply #262 on: October 06, 2010, 00:17:53 »
Erm ... sorry to go on about it Roll Eyes , but, Yes: rainwater makes the Scheidt & Bachmann TVMs▸ (Ticket Vending Machine) have a 'hissy fit', and refuse to operate afterwards.

See my various posts about this - and the need to install proper all-weather protection, rather than a token perspex cover.  Lips sealed
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #263 on: October 06, 2010, 01:45:39 »
Swaythling has some sort of card scanning machine on the platforms. Not sure how they work!
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« Reply #264 on: October 06, 2010, 07:19:15 »
Quote from: devon_metro on October 06, 2010, 01:45:39
Swaythling has some sort of card scanning machine on the platforms. Not sure how they work!
Pretty much all the SWT▸ (South West Trains) stations now have ITSO card readers on the platforms/gates and on the TVMs▸ (Ticket Vending Machine).  I've never seen anyone use them, so must still be in testing.

Not sure what SWT have done/ordered differently, but I've never had any problem using their S&B TVMs when raining.
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« Reply #265 on: October 06, 2010, 09:36:06 »
Quote from: Brucey on October 06, 2010, 07:19:15
Quote from: devon_metro on October 06, 2010, 01:45:39
Swaythling has some sort of card scanning machine on the platforms. Not sure how they work!
Pretty much all the SWT▸ (South West Trains) stations now have ITSO card readers on the platforms/gates and on the TVMs▸ (Ticket Vending Machine).  I've never seen anyone use them, so must still be in testing.

Season tickets on ITSO are in use between Basingstoke and Weymouth, but not into the London Fares zone.

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« Reply #266 on: October 06, 2010, 22:55:01 »
Spotted one of those ITSO jobbies at Bracknell a few weeks back. Already had a broken screen and a graffito scrawled over it
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« Reply #267 on: October 07, 2010, 23:01:56 »
Hows this one then? Somebody obviously doesn't want the hassle of reporting it.
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« Reply #268 on: October 07, 2010, 23:26:56 »
But they forgot to mask over the "... & Change" label, on the ticket trough ...  Roll Eyes
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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

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« Reply #269 on: October 09, 2010, 21:19:38 »
Update on the ticket machine saga at Nailsea & Backwell Station.

A rather sorry sight greeted me, this morning:



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William Huskisson MP▸ (Member of Parliament, or Mile Post - a method of measuring the railway in miles and chains from a starting point - usually London, depending on context) was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830.  Many more have died in the same way since then.  Don't take a chance: Stop, Look, Listen.

"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner."  Discuss.
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