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Colin Rosenstiel · March 18th 07, 09:00 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Barry Salter) wrote:

wrote:

Does the Gatwick Express machine at Victoria still permit
collection - it only sells tickets to Gatwick. Quite why Southern
don't set their machines up to allow collection, I don't know
seeing as they all claim to offer this service.

Ultimately, it's down to money. A TOC has to pay to have their
machines enabled for ticket collection, so someone has to do the
sums and work out whether the commission earned will recoup that.
If it doesn't, they won't offer the facility. [1]

Marylebone, Paddington, Euston, St Pancras, Kings Cross should all
allow collection of tickets.

And indeed they do, as all of them use Shere FAST machines. In
fact, the majority (all?) of the Chiltern stations equipped with
said machines offer collection now, including the unstaffed ones
(Kings Sutton, Monks Risborough, Saunderton, Wembley Stadium and
West Ruislip).

HTH,

Barry

[1] That's slight oversimplification, but there you go.

Cambridge has Shere FAST machines but has never provided for ticket
collection, even in WAGN days.

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Colin Rosenstiel