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« Reply #255 on: October 03, 2010, 22:12:59 » |
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How to do it wrong - yet again    : When one of your ticket vending machines has been ... erm, 'terminated' ...  ... you should take positive action to preserve the other machine at that site:  However: suggesting that there may be any cash in this machine - when there is not, and has not been for nearly two years now, is absolutely crass:  Is it so difficult for FGW▸ to do what BT have done, on the telephone kiosk adjoining the approach path to Platform 1 at NLS, to explain, in simple terms, that 'there is no cash in this machine'? CfN |
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« Reply #256 on: October 03, 2010, 22:20:02 » |
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and when the other is "out of service" as it was today so you have to proceed to reading on an iphone/ipad email confirmation of the advance ticket
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Ditched former sig - now I need to think of something amusing - brain hurts -I'll steal from the master himself - Einstein:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love"
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« Reply #257 on: October 03, 2010, 22:49:25 » |
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So with 'CASH EMPTIED DAILY' are the TVMs▸ at Nailsea & Backwell now accepting readies again? (When they work, that is!)
Hardly going to make them less attractive to future attacks. Unless there is some other secret counter-measure now built in.....
....flamethrower, Taser^, viper on a string....
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« Reply #258 on: October 03, 2010, 22:57:43 » |
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Oh, for the umpteenth time: The ticket vending machine(s) at Nailsea and Backwell Station have been disabled from accepting any cash transactions for nearly two years now. THESE MACHINES DO NOT CONTAIN ANY CASHFGW▸ have just gone and stuck the wrong / inappropriate / stupid sticker on our one surviving machine. Sorry to go on. Chris.  |
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"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #259 on: October 03, 2010, 23:13:45 » |
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....and relax.  I didn't read the text under the photos and assumed that FGW▸ had repaired the machine and reinstated cash acceptance. Sorry. I hope I didn't raise your blood pressure too much.  |
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« Reply #260 on: October 03, 2010, 23:23:36 » |
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No you didn't; no they haven't; and yes you did. |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
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« Reply #261 on: October 06, 2010, 00:10:43 » |
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Does rainwater affect the ticket machines? Seemingly did at Earley the other day. Think they could make it a little more protected?
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #262 on: October 06, 2010, 00:17:53 » |
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Erm ... sorry to go on about it , but, Yes: rainwater makes the Scheidt & Bachmann TVMs▸ have a 'hissy fit', and refuse to operate afterwards. See my various posts about this - and the need to install proper all-weather protection, rather than a token perspex cover.  |
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« Reply #263 on: October 06, 2010, 01:45:39 » |
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Swaythling has some sort of card scanning machine on the platforms. Not sure how they work!
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« Reply #264 on: October 06, 2010, 07:19:15 » |
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Swaythling has some sort of card scanning machine on the platforms. Not sure how they work!
Pretty much all the SWT▸ stations now have ITSO card readers on the platforms/gates and on the TVMs▸ . I've never seen anyone use them, so must still be in testing. Not sure what SWT have done/ordered differently, but I've never had any problem using their S&B TVMs when raining. |
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« Reply #265 on: October 06, 2010, 09:36:06 » |
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Swaythling has some sort of card scanning machine on the platforms. Not sure how they work!
Pretty much all the SWT▸ stations now have ITSO card readers on the platforms/gates and on the TVMs▸ . I've never seen anyone use them, so must still be in testing. Season tickets on ITSO are in use between Basingstoke and Weymouth, but not into the London Fares zone. Paul |
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« Reply #266 on: October 06, 2010, 22:55:01 » |
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Spotted one of those ITSO jobbies at Bracknell a few weeks back. Already had a broken screen and a graffito scrawled over it
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« Reply #267 on: October 07, 2010, 23:01:56 » |
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Hows this one then? Somebody obviously doesn't want the hassle of reporting it.  |
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I do not work for FGW▸ and posts should not be assumed and do not imply they are statements, unless explicitly stated that they are, from any TOC▸ including First Great Western.
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Chris from Nailsea
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« Reply #268 on: October 07, 2010, 23:26:56 » |
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But they forgot to mask over the "... & Change" label, on the ticket trough ... |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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« Reply #269 on: October 09, 2010, 21:19:38 » |
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William Huskisson MP▸ was the first person to be killed by a train while crossing the tracks, in 1830. Many more have died in the same way since then. Don't take a chance: stop, look, listen.
"Level crossings are safe, unless they are used in an unsafe manner." Discuss.
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