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[email protected] · March 3rd 12, 01:19 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul G) wrote:

In message , Graham Nye
writes
On 01/03/2012 09:22, ®i©ardo wrote:
My message on ticket collection was on my First Great Western
confirmation. However, 2 -3 years ago I was collecting from other than
the station that I had nominated for that purpose.

Yesterday I pre-ordered a ticket for next week for collection from my
home station and today I was able to pick it up from my destination
station. So the system is indeed more flexible that the website
message implies.

It also used to be that you could use any credit card to activate the
ticket machine and then enter a reference number to collect your
tickets.

I used the Virgin ticket machines at Euston last Saturday and they
needed the specific credit card that I had booked with (which is a
bit inconvenient as I use a different credit for online bookings and
don't always carry it) and were extremely slow (from when the card
was put in it took upwards of a minute to bring up the ticket details
on the screen). On the other hand I didn't need to tap in a
reference number.

My problem with the 3 Shere machines and may last credit card is that they
were perfectly happy to take money using the card but not to acknowledge it
for TOD. I mostly used the Scheidt & Bachmann machine which wasn't so fussy
and happy to give me my tickets but once it was out of order and I had to go
to a ticket window. That was how I found out I could get my tickets there.

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Colin Rosenstiel