[crossposted to uk.transport.london]
[original thread on uk.railway]


News_Demon (removespam) wrote:

When purchasing tickets with a credit card from the machines at London
Paddington is possible to purchase 2 tickets in the same transaction?

There is almost cetainly a muiltple ticket option if you're buying more
than one ticket for the same journey - i.e. once you've specified the
journey and ticket type you can buy x number of adult and x number of
child tickets.

AFAIA no public transport ticket machines allow you to have a virtual
basked and buy multiple tickets for different journeys in one
transaction.

I ask AFAIK at a LU machine you can only buy 1 ticket and can only use your
card ONCE in a 24 hour period.

LU ticket machines allow you to buy several tickets for the same
journey as described above. I'm not sure about whether the "one
purchase using a credit/debit card on the LU network" rule still
applies - perhaps it is a bit more forgiving now that LU ticket
machines are all equipped with a chip and pin pad, which reduces the
risk that the user of the card is not the real cardholder.

The wise sages of uk.transport.london may know the facts...