Colin wrote:
If you want the luxury of paying for a ticket with a credit card then you
have to go to a ticket shop and pay the extra 50p. This extra fee is common
for many small purchases (not just tickets) as retailers get charged a fee
by card issuers which means that it's uneconomic to sell to you unless you
recompense them.

Luxury? ;-) Rather a necessity in many sitations, for which the owner
pays extra. It is not true that the extra charges for credit card
payments are applied only by small retailers. IKEA and many others do
that as well in this country.

R