Warminster tickets

moonrakerz

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Warminster tickets

« on: September 17, 2009, 16:41:43 »

When I asked for a cheap day return from Warminster to Salisbury this morning I was asked for ^5.90 (railcard prices), I then said "shouldn't that be ^3.85" ? After a lot of button punching she agreed. Not a good start.

When I got to Salisbury the barriers wouldn't let me out !
When I came back to the station the barriers wouldn't let me in ! The lady manning the barrier looked at my ticket and said "Ah, a Warminster ticket, this doesn't like Warminster tickets " - she sounded serious. Any ideas why (if !) this should be ? A batch of blank tickets with dodgy magnetic strips ?


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paul7575

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Re: Warminster tickets

« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2009, 16:57:07 »

Badly written mag stripe info at the issuing ticket machine. I've had similar issues with a travelcard issued on a portable machine by an SWT^▸ 'queuebusting' RPI^▸ at Fareham, it wouldn't operate any barriers at all in London. Angry

Paul


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eightf48544

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Re: Warminster tickets

« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2009, 17:07:06 »

Quote from: paul7755 on September 17, 2009, 16:57:07

Paul

Possibly bought on by a software change in either or both the issuing machine, (not writing the strip correctly) or the Salisbury gates (not reading what Warminister has written).

I've had this with a Gold Card from Taplow which stopped opening LUL^▸ gates. Turned out LUL had altered the software and Taplow hadn't been given the amendment to change it's writing.

A very good chief programmer I worked with always asked the question what's changed, when something went wrong? Invariably it was the change that had caused the problem


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Btline

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Re: Warminster tickets

« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2009, 21:43:29 »

Obviously a SWT^▸ thing. The Waterloo ticket barriers don't work either.


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moonrakerz

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Re: Warminster tickets

« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2009, 20:54:16 »

Quote from: Btline on September 17, 2009, 21:43:29

Obviously a SWT^▸ thing. The Waterloo ticket barriers don't work either.

They did on Friday AND Saturday when I used them !


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Btline

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Re: Warminster tickets

« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2009, 21:48:43 »

I had a valid ticket. I tried two barriers. Both did not open. Therefore both were not working. Perhaps I just picked two broken ones...

Anyway, when I started trying to force the barrier open, the staff just opened it with a smile, without looking at my ticket. They are clearly used to it.

When I went down into the Tube - hey presto - my valid ticket worked!


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