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That is the very document I got my information from, but it is a lot more than just a very small minority. There are 142 Scotrail controlled stations listed, and 55 of them have the 'Scottish bookings only' marker.
One thing has puzzled me here and I'm surprised that nobody else has picked up on it either. When Railboy 'validated' his pass at the tramstop, surely the validator would have given some sort of indication as to whether the pass was valid or not. Surely if it said the pass wasn't valid, the...
I certainly would give a statement in such circumstances.
I have done in the past. I was once on a late night bus and a yob was assaulting the bus driver while we were actually on the move because he (correctly) wouldn't stop to let him off at a bus stop inside the city boundary. The yob had...
Balloch (Formerly Balloch Central) was resited just short of the level crossing that the original station was beyond. This enabled the level crossing to be abolished. This happened at least a couple of years after Balloch Pier closed.
Another option that would only require a software modification to the machines is to have ones priv entitlement cards issued as 'chip & pin' cards.
The menu for priv tickets could then only be made to appear once the card has been inserted and PIN verified.
You're right there. Ticket offices on virtually every station, open from before the first train till after the last train every day. What a novel idea. I wonder why other TOCs don't try that too.
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