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Oyster to Ebbsfleet?
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on Sun, 10 Aug 2014, remarked: http://issuu.com/abelliogroup/docs/o...july___for_int - take a look at page 5 to get a tiny glimpse of what is being planned by Abellio Greater Anglia for SEFT / ITSO. The Bluetooth ticketing option is a new one on me. Apparently this allows an App on a smartphone to buy e-tickets wirelessly in a suitably equipped station. Just what we need, another balkanised technology to add to Oyster, ITSO, Contactless, barcodes, NFC-on-phone and of course GSM and Wifi already contacting booking sites from smartphones. But it has attractions for a station operator because it means people travelling from there can be constrained to using that TOC's booking engine and not the one they normally use (unless these facilities are ruled to be something akin to an "Impartial Point of Sale" allowing access to all booking engines, which seems unlikely). Of course, that begs the question of whether these "Bluetooth tickets" from your friendly local GA station will be available for routes off-GA, which could be as popularly mundane as Cambridge-King Cross. (ie Kings Cross, and quite soon all of Thameslink, would have to be fitted out to accept them). In the mean time, it's a welcome addition to my V*p**rw*r* list. Interesting. Roland will also be pleased to see the plans for gates at Ely on page 7. /-) The station is so shallow that I struggle to see how they could put barriers inside, even if they widen the ticket office area. Currently there are significant people-jams when trains arrive from the south in the late afternoon, which take ages to clear because of the narrow doors from the platform and outdoors. (Not helped by the extra footprint used by passengers with bikes, many of which are retrieved from racks on the platform and are therefore doomed to make two trips a day through the barriers). The commonplace queues inside the ticket office also serve to obstruct people-flows like that. From a purely engineering perspective the best place to put the barriers would be in a little compound on the platform, like they have at Grantham: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_GRA/plan.html?rtnloc=GRA http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/ht...s/1964-0030025 ..html Although the peak flow capacity at Ely would still be questionable. The effect on trainspotters, and people accessing the shop/cafe on the platform, while not actually travelling, is simply something that's been caught in the crossfire all over the network -- Roland Perry |
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Oyster to Ebbsfleet?
In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote: In message , at 02:33:01 on Sun, 10 Aug 2014, remarked: http://issuu.com/abelliogroup/docs/o...july___for_int - take a look at page 5 to get a tiny glimpse of what is being planned by Abellio Greater Anglia for SEFT / ITSO. The Bluetooth ticketing option is a new one on me. Apparently this allows an App on a smartphone to buy e-tickets wirelessly in a suitably equipped station. Just what we need, another balkanised technology to add to Oyster, ITSO, Contactless, barcodes, NFC-on-phone and of course GSM and Wifi already contacting booking sites from smartphones. But it has attractions for a station operator because it means people travelling from there can be constrained to using that TOC's booking engine and not the one they normally use (unless these facilities are ruled to be something akin to an "Impartial Point of Sale" allowing access to all booking engines, which seems unlikely). Of course, that begs the question of whether these "Bluetooth tickets" from your friendly local GA station will be available for routes off-GA, which could be as popularly mundane as Cambridge-King Cross. (ie Kings Cross, and quite soon all of Thameslink, would have to be fitted out to accept them). In the mean time, it's a welcome addition to my V*p**rw*r* list. Interesting. Roland will also be pleased to see the plans for gates at Ely on page 7. /-) The station is so shallow that I struggle to see how they could put barriers inside, even if they widen the ticket office area. Currently there are significant people-jams when trains arrive from the south in the late afternoon, which take ages to clear because of the narrow doors from the platform and outdoors. (Not helped by the extra footprint used by passengers with bikes, many of which are retrieved from racks on the platform and are therefore doomed to make two trips a day through the barriers). The commonplace queues inside the ticket office also serve to obstruct people-flows like that. From a purely engineering perspective the best place to put the barriers would be in a little compound on the platform, like they have at Grantham: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_GRA/plan.html?rtnloc=GRA http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/ht...64-0030025.htm l Although the peak flow capacity at Ely would still be questionable. The effect on trainspotters, and people accessing the shop/cafe on the platform, while not actually travelling, is simply something that's been caught in the crossfire all over the network I share your concerns. -- Colin Rosenstiel |
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