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New Scotrail/EMR TVMs that only print e-tickets
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They are obliged to accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express cards, by some means or other, because National Rail Enquiries says they do.
That sign referred to Electron cards which won't have been seen on British issued cards for a while.
Isn't that just Raileasy calling their bluff? Nowhere else I've seen offers it.
Unsure.
But I've used e-tickets from Raileasy on countless ScotRail services and no ticket checker has ever said anything about the ticket format I presented (saved in Google Wallet).
They wouldn't do I don't think. As noted above it's hard to see any actual issues.
Wallsendmag
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eTickets are valid on ScotRail but they're only just starting to enable them on their own Advance flows
Flexi Seasons should be issued as sTickets, rather than e-tickets. Functionally they're similar to an m-ticket in that they can only be displayed in app, but the barcode is regenerated every so often.
Indeed. That's certainly not what's happening in practice. The PDFs I've got definitely do not have regenerating barcodes.
Flexi Seasons were originally available as eTickets, before the sTicket lobbying got that nonsense continued, and I suspect many still are. It's still allowed by the standard as far as I know
Even some normal season tickets were available as eticket from a ticket office back in the day. I've got one somewhere issued by a Virgin Trains ticket office.
Wallsendmag
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All of LNER's Flexi Seasons sold online are eTickets, at least this week.
drueberflug
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Not sure whether anyone noticed, but the phone number printed on the ticket is EMR's phone number.
Luton Airport sells these awful white tickets too. The GA/WMR variant is much better on thicker card and with National rail logos on the back.
These monstrosities must be easy to fake and half the time don’t even work the gates at Luton Airport Parkway. On the last occasion my non enthusiast friend summed up the experience perfectly ‘what a load of low quality crap’
These monstrosities must be easy to fake and half the time don’t even work the gates at Luton Airport Parkway. On the last occasion my non enthusiast friend summed up the experience perfectly ‘what a load of low quality crap’
Presumably, as with an e-ticket, the difficult bit would be generating the computer readable content.
Wallsendmag
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White paper from TVMs will not be the standard going forward.
Do you mean will now, or has there been a sudden U-turn?
Jim the Jim
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My local station is now issuing them in a similar format to the white tickets, but printed with a similar orange design to the CCST stock.
Wallsendmag
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Theres a new version of the familiar orange and lime green with thinner orange borders thats going to be standard going forward.
Have you tried printing them? Maybe they'll regenerate automatically then
Wallsendmag
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You have a Flexi Season on a PDF?
Tetchytyke
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The tickets that are issued from TPE's kiosks are similarly awful. The paper quality is terrible and the printing quality is terrible (the latter caused by the former, I suspect). First time I got one from the machines at Manchester Airport I thought the machine had malfunctioned it was so bad.
Hard to fake though, because of the QR code.
Trip have/do issue them like that
Bletchleyite
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How does the "flexi" nature of it work when issued as a PDF e-ticket? Do you just download one for each day you want to use, then they stop being issued when you run out of days?
I'd ask how that's standards compliant, but it's not Trip's fault (for a change!) if TOCs haven't disabled e-ticket fulfilment of Flexi Seasons in favour of sTicket.
Essentially yes, at least that how the LNER eTicket flexis work (or did work)
It's a good thing they haven't! eTickets are far superior to sTickets
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Presumably LNER and others do it because they can't do mtickets.
Wallsendmag
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You can't print a LNER Flexi Season eTicket though
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Wait a couple of days and see what happens (Not mTickets)
It's just a PDF, why can't you?
You definitely can.
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