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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    TOCs will not accept a card receipt as evidence of payment if a ticket is lost and cannot be produced for inspection. In the apparent...
    Post by: marty, Jun 30, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    "I firmly believe, once they are tucked away into a drawer at hone are soon forgotten" Until they are rediscovered! "People don't mind modern...
    Post by: marty, Jun 27, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    What's wrong with Mk1 stock? Side corridor compartment stock is positively luxurious compared with modern privatised trains. Visitors can be...
    Post by: marty, Jun 25, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    There is a problem here of course, the person complaining is in a very weak position compared with the organisation being complained about...
    Post by: marty, Jun 24, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    Foams at mouth at sight of these examples!!! These, of course, would now be "heritage" if the machinery still existed to issue them, but would...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    You've hit the nail exactly on the head there. In Gestalt terms, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" And so it is!
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    Add to this that Thomas Edmondsons system was a huge innovative leap forward in the 1840s, one that was to be exported to most of the world too...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    I presume that these faults would be seen as the "customers problem" and nowt to do with the TOC. Pretty much like if you lost your conventional...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    If everybody skips queues by buying online, don't they just join another queue at the barrier, of fellow queue avoiders? 99% of folk I see buying...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Frankenbardic ?

    Think we may be using different definitions of what is white. Our cognitive processes percieve LEDs as white just as we do incandescent bulbs or...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Railwayana
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    I think that Daft has the vision of eventually everyone having their phone as a ticket or buying one online or from a TVM, and then doing away...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    Now, there's a thought... Wonder if any NCR equipment has been preserved anywhere?
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    I know nothing about the NNR, save that they used to issue Edmondsons and may still do. Any firm that adds an "administrative charge"" merely for...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Frankenbardic ?

    Washed out colours with LEDs are mainly due to the temperature (colour) of the light changing. Incandescant bulbs give a yellow tinged light...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Railwayana
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    Sounds like there's a few railways that really can't be arsed! A booking fee FFS!! What's that all about?!!
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    Pre-booking guarantees a seat on a particular train. That is not jeopardised by "having to queue". British people are perfectly willing and able...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    And you are also missing the point that any sort of ticket can be mailed out in response to an online booking. That can be a sheet of A4 with a...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    This would be an Almex A machine that BR used as a replacement for early Setright machines on Paytrains. BR used pink roll, sometimes with text...
    Post by: marty, Jun 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    Robin White makes some good points here, In no particular order; (1) EPOS ‘tickets’ Certainly aren’t part of the experience! (2) a number of...
    Post by: marty, Jun 22, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Edmonson tickets a lost "cause" for ever?

    And, of course, epos systems can be hacked, corrupted or crash at a critical moment. That could happen when the station is closed/deserted or...
    Post by: marty, Jun 22, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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