Harry G wrote
[...]
I was talking to a conductor on a ScotRail service into Glasgow Queen
Street shortly after automatic barriers were introduced there, and he
said the amount of tickets sold from Queen Street to the first
station
(Bishopbriggs/Lenzie?) had increased massively since the gating - the
clear reason being that people were buying the cheapest possible
ticket simply to open the gates.

The NR statation usage spreadsheet at
http://www.rail-reg.gov.uk/server/show/nav.1379

Shows Glasgow Queen Street has an annual 2.389M entries and 1.341M
exits a very unusual imbalance though ISTR having to leave from there
and return to Central. Nothing unusual about the entry/exit ratio for
Bishopbriggs or Lenzie.

( 3.224M interchanges)


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Mike D