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Similar situation happened to me - the TVM wouldn't allow me to select my railcard on the screen, when I pressed it nothing happened but the other railcard buttons did work. Conductor on board didn't have a machine to sell tickets with him so requested me to purchase one at Preston. Was stopped...
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