Given the number of ticket office closures thats a lot of redundant equipment.
Are they all still sitting behind the shutters in case a future mayor changes
his mind, been repurposed for something else or just been sent for scrap?

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Spud

In message , at 09:27:58 on Tue, 17 Jan
2017, d remarked:
Given the number of ticket office closures thats a lot of redundant equipment.
Are they all still sitting behind the shutters in case a future mayor changes
his mind, been repurposed for something else or just been sent for scrap?

Shutters? I thought most of the holes in the wall now had ticket
machines in them.
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Roland Perry

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:03:57 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:27:58 on Tue, 17 Jan
2017, d remarked:
Given the number of ticket office closures thats a lot of redundant equipment.
Are they all still sitting behind the shutters in case a future mayor changes
his mind, been repurposed for something else or just been sent for scrap?

Shutters? I thought most of the holes in the wall now had ticket
machines in them.

Not that I've noticed. Perhaps at the mainline stations but at the others
they seem to have just been vinyled over and left.

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Spud

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:04:50 +0000, wrote:

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 10:03:57 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 09:27:58 on Tue, 17 Jan
2017, d remarked:
Given the number of ticket office closures thats a lot of redundant equipment.
Are they all still sitting behind the shutters in case a future mayor changes
his mind, been repurposed for something else or just been sent for scrap?

Shutters? I thought most of the holes in the wall now had ticket
machines in them.

A lot of places already had enough ticket machines, Turnham Green when
I passed through on Saturday has had it's ticket window covered over
by a frame containing the system map.

Yes, I think most suburban stations are like that. But that's intended
to be just a temporary situation, as the hope is to let the former
ticket offices out as retail space. There may need to be some
reorganisation of facilities if ticket machines block access to the
space.

On Tuesday, 17 January 2017 09:28:00 UTC, wrote:
Given the number of ticket office closures thats a lot of redundant equipment.
Are they all still sitting behind the shutters in case a future mayor changes
his mind, been repurposed for something else or just been sent for scrap?

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Spud

I think, but am not 100% certain, that a proportion of the old ticket office requirement has been retained because it was essential for station accounting including the passenger operated machines. A lot of the internal fittings and furniture has been removed and disposed of. I don't think there is anything that is sitting there in the event of a "change of mind". It's just what has to be kept to allow the ticketing, banking and accounting requirements to be met. Just because a ticket window isn't there any more does not mean that the cash from the ticket machines doesn't have to be banked, floats maintained and cash collected. Obviously volumes of paper ticket sales have reduced because of Oyster and contactless but money is still flowing through stations.

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Paul C
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