Paul Weaver wrote:
About 60% of the time one of them is out of order, about 30% of the
time
they are both out of order, at least at my local station. Pay by
card? No
choice but the ticket window.

KX last week

"Sorry there are no tickets available to that destination, please
choose another destination or buy a ticket from the ticket office" (and
I was going to Peterborough).

Other machine held my card for a few minutes before saying that due to
a fault I should try another machine

Other machine wouldn't sell an Open Return

Good job I didn't queue for 20 mins at each of these useless machines