On 12 Jan 2006 02:02:10 -0800, "Neil Williams"
wrote:

with most European systems. Then again, high ticket office staffing
seems a curiously British thing - Merseyrail is fully staffed
throughout service except for 4 stations that have never had staff

Try Hungary, where I found a fully staffed MAV ticket office open from
05.xx to the evening, on a line which sees 2-3 trains a day - which
have a ticket seller onboard. About 5min walk away is a big mainline
inter-city station, which could justify staff, but a tiny narrow gauge
branch?

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Arthur Figgis Surrey, UK