Types of ticket barriers used on the railway network.

[CyrusWuff]

To bring this thread up to date, High Wycombe is the Chiltern Railways station which has had the new taller CTS FEnX ticket gates installed. As mentioned previously, this is the first station in the country to have these ticket gates installed.

High Wycombe's going to be the first to have them installed as a complete replacement for the previous Cubic E1 gates, but Salford Crescent has had two FEnX gates installed as part of the construction of Platform 3.

 

[JonathanH]

Do they allow for proper E-Ticket revenue protection rules to be set-up?

What does that entail? Is it a mix of positives and negatives? For example programming of all valid breaks of journey as a positive, and true integration of scans back to customer accounts for fraud investigation?

 

[Bungle965]

Do they allow for proper E-Ticket revenue protection rules to be set-up?

No, although that's coming separately

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High Wycombe's going to be the first to have them installed as a complete replacement for the previous Cubic E1 gates, but Salford Crescent has had two FEnX gates installed as part of the construction of Platform 3.

Not yet live I see (photos attached of the new installation at Salford Crescent)

 

[Edvid]

A short clip of Wycombe's FEnX gates (from someone's TikTok, moaning about how they'd "bump" them now) was posted on the uktrains subreddit. Installed recently enough that the ubiquitous yellow stickers haven't been applied yet, so I thought the NFC readers hadn't been added at first.

Like the Vix gates these have barcode readers built in.

The original ticket gates at Epsom were produced by Ascom (who also produced the Quickfare ticket machines). These were originally installed by Connex who also installed this type of gateline at Canterbury East.

The same type of Ascom gateline was also installed by First Great Eastern at Chelmsford and Romford and by South West Trains at Southampton Central and Portsmouth Harbour. Another type of Ascom gateline was installed by Virgin Trains at Coventry in the mid-noughties, though this did not last for very long.

Thanks, that's interesting to know. Ascom's involvement in fare validation on our shores was pretty much before my time so I'd still be thinking of Romford's pre-Oyster gates as a S&B model otherwise!

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Not yet live I see (photos attached of the new installation at Salford Crescent)

Interesting to see the 2010-ish ITSO pictogram stickers have been applied to the NFC readers on those gates.

 

[Bungle965]

Interesting to see the 2010-ish ITSO pictogram stickers have been applied to the NFC readers on those gates.

I'm not a fan of the position of the barcode reader

 

[saismee]

Interesting to see the 2010-ish ITSO pictogram stickers have been applied to the NFC readers on those gates.

It's a standard plastic overlay (less like a sticker, though still stuck on). A lot of gates have another sticker over the top of this.

 

[Sonic1234]

What does that entail? Is it a mix of positives and negatives?

Things like being able to block railcard-discounted tickets and certain ticket types.

For example, GTR block Advance tickets at gatelines for manual inspection (a blooming frustrating policy in my opinion, and pretty much useless in reality). But if you have an Advance e-ticket, it will work because they can not apply this "special rule" to anything other than paper tickets.

 

[pineapple63]

As far as i know the Scheidt & Bachmann ticket barriers use error messages rather than codes (i found that out a few days ago when i was trying to break my journey at Newcastle, and got a "Ticket not valid for this station" error)