Revenue collection

[whole diary]

[noddingdonkey]

apparently not closing New North road end as we originally thought but having manned barriers both there and at the Queen Street end. Now, how often these will be manned (and they have to be manned to be operational) is another question. I would suggest that there's a very good chance they'll be known as the Queen St folly before too long!

[paul7575]

Separate barrier lines are allowed to be CCTV^▸ (Closed Circuit Tele-Vision) monitored - SWT^▸ (South West Trains) have a couple of such installations, eg at Havant. In the evenings the up side barrier line is controlled by the guy at the main (downside) barrier line, there is a help point with a camera to allow tickets to be checked remotely.

Paul

[vacman]

apparently not closing New North road end as we originally thought but having manned barriers both there and at the Queen Street end. Now, how often these will be manned (and they have to be manned to be operational) is another question. I would suggest that there's a very good chance they'll be known as the Queen St folly before too long!

Automatic gates going in at the queen street end

[Super Guard]

As has been mentioned, there seems to be a sudden increase of movement on the vacancy list now the new financial year is approaching.

[Bob_Blakey]

Travelled last night as far as EXD^» (Exeter St Davids - next trains) on the 2006 PAD^» (Paddington (London) - next trains)-PLY^» (Plymouth - next trains) and no attempt was made to check tickets by the TM^▸ (Train Manager, or Ticket Machine, or Temple Meads (Bristol), depending on context) (who also managed to announce arrival at Westbury 5 seconds before the train came to a halt at the station!). Given the number of calls at unstaffed/ungated stations after Reading I thought this was a tad slack.