On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 02:12:58AM -0800, Patrick Osborne wrote:

Every year it's the same, and this year was no exception. The queues
at Lewisham this morning had to be seen to be believed; they were so
long that they were seriously affecting the ability to enter the
station itself. Presumably this scene was re-enacted across the
network.

I was expecting it to be terrible at Thornton Heath too. I'd tried to
buy my ticket the previous day, but got there too late and the ticket
office was closed, so I resigned myself to having to queue for ages on
Monday.

But no, there was no queue at all when I got there just before 9.
Hurrah! No idea how that happened, cos there's usually a fair old queue
every Monday as people renew their weekly tickets.

Is there a reason why people queue up for ages on the first working
day of the year to renew their season ticket, when you can easily
purchase it online ...

I don't use the computarmachine to do it because of the stupid rules and
regulations he
http://southernrailway.com/main.php?page_id=511

They appear to have forgotten the option of "I would like to order a
ticket starting on date A and finishing on date B".

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