RAIB^▸ (Rail Accident Investigation Branch) have published an interim report on this accident. It provides a lot more detail than the initial press statement, but is mostly about the same topics. As an interim report, there is no attempt to draw conclusions.

They do where I am now, we can claim to the time printed on our paying in receipt. I only bother if it’s over a certain number of minutes late. It isn’t worth messing around for 1-2 minutes, especially as another day I could have a quick escape and get home a few minutes early. I run a tally in my head and know I roughly break even over a month if I didn’t claim until I hit my figure of lateness.

We can go days without seeing any cash on the main service I drive, then have a shift with loads of cash. Funny old world. Unpredictable.

That used to happen in Westbury. Not anymore since the double yellow lines appeared for quite a wide radius away from the station.

Nearly 3 years since anything posted on this thread - I understand that we are getting near(er) to having a 4BEL unit running - all be it really the old passenger accommodation of the generation of trains that the 5BEL belonged to with railway equipment from the following generation.  I still look forward to a ride some time.

I started this as a poll to get a wide range of views.   Undoubtedly cash is messy to handle and yet where I see businesses and their staff grumbling about it, part of me feel "yes - but services should be about what the service user - the customers - wants and needs, and not about the convenience to the staff".  The other part of me sees those extra delay seconds on buses (especially) where the customer joining does a slower cash-and-change transaction and other customer sit patiently waiting.

Question - did I see that on the Valley lines in South Wales, the corner stores near to some (smaller?) stations will sell you a ticket for cash, but it won't be accepted on the tram/train or with machines at the station?

A parallel - for user group(s) - (MTUG^» (Melksham Transport User Group - site), WWRUG^» (West Wiltshire Rail Users Group - about), TWSW^» (TravelWatch SouthWest - website), etc) should we accept that some members are not online and correspond with them in print rather than through email?  How about people who want to join and can't because of some personal limitation?  How about people who have chosen not to be online? How about people who are taking a principled stand against everything being done through a computer?

No answer from me, here ... I have voted that cash should be accepted though with some exceptions.  And what are those suggestions?   I would suggest journeys that require formal ID - such as Eurostar, and journeys that are made for purely leisure purposes outside the normal transportation needs.   So heritage railways, coach excursions, the runaway mine train at Alton Towers, mail rail, and Great Britain XVII are exempt from accepting cash. 

Easy for you to say. 

Isn’t this about whether the Government should compel businesses to accept cash? It’s not the Government that’s killing cash, it’s businesses and their customers.

As GBM points out, handling cash is inconvenient and expensive. The Government may try to protect it, but it may well be a losing battle.

Weren't there planning problems at Tiverton Parkway - extra car parks laid when the sea wall was closed, and well used, but they were only temporary and had to be closed once the sea wall was open again.   Or was I dreaming when I heard that one?

........for future reference, a warm (26°) sunny Spring day now apparently constitutes "severe weather" for the purposes of the railway.

Customers on platform/concourse utterly incredulous (especially those from genuinely hot countries struggling to get to Heathrow) when the announcement was made.

Kudos to rail staff who were advising people of this dramatic meteorological phenomenon and managed to keep a straight face.

Okehampton stn car park (about 70 spaces) is regularly full, with people parking nearby and for free.
But this is good and is what was hoped for and gives further justification for the new Okehampton Parkway, sorry Interchange, station.