On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:00:20 GMT, Marcus Fox wrote:

Hypothetical question, because it very nearly happened to me, only my train
was 5 minutes late, and I just about made it.

If I have queued for 15 minutes without being served due to there being only
one person serving and some guy hogging the queue, and my train is about to
depart, can I board that train there and then and still obtain the
discounted rail fare available with my railcard from the on train ticket
person?

That depends if your station is part of a penalty fares scheme or not.
Mine isn't , I often don't buy a ticket (not helped by the
it-crawled-from-the-80s ticket machines SWT uses)

Steve