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Roland Perry · August 4th 16, 08:01 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 16:33:08
on Wed, 3 Aug 2016, remarked:

And there was me thinking that ticketing was one bit that wasn't meant to
be so fragmented after privatisation.

It had to be a bit fragmented to deliver pricing competition (as you
know from your jaunts via Liverpool St).

That their machines won't, it seems, sell you tickets for until it's too
late not to miss the train.

Are you referring to buying a ticket for the first off-peak train?

At least these days most booking office clerks will sell you one ahead
of time, having first made enquiries about when you intend travelling.
Back in the day they wouldn't.

When I lived near Surbiton it was impossible to catch the first off-peak
train to London (if it was on time) because it left only one or two
minutes after they'd started selling tickets for it.
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Roland Perry