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Castle Bar Park station has a ticket office listed on the most recent Schedule 17 as open Monday – Friday from 07:00 – 10:00. However, National Rail confirms this is closed and it’s previously been mentioned on here that this has not been staffed since Covid. But officially it has not been...

Apologies for digging up an old thread, I’ve only just found this whilst searching for something completely different! But to answer one of the original poster’s questions The original ticket gates at Epsom were produced by Ascom (who also produced the Quickfare ticket machines). These were...

In terms of numbers of (National Rail) passengers using the station, I think it would be Greenford or South Ruislip managed by London Underground. Based on last years passenger usage (for stations not on the Underground), I think it would be Edinburgh Gateway (0.225 million) and West Horndon...

Elsewhere on GTR at Horsham station in the past couple of weeks, they have had multiple staff (Ontrak Revenue Support) positioned on the gateline at the back entrance. This is for the first time in years and for the majority of the day as well. The gateline (like many unstaffed gatelines) has...

No worries! Just been past Holmwood station now for the first time this week and the machine has now been removed (meaning the end of Pertis machines on Southern)

It's still there (I've just passed it now!)

Sorry my son wanted to go to Winchester today, so didn't end up seeing it! But I'm 95% certain it's been removed from the YouTube video I saw.

Holmwood's machine is still in situ as of this lunchtime. I believe from watching a YouTube video frame by fame last night that East Worthing's machine has also been removed, but I will try and get this confirmed on Saturday

Warnham's Permit to Travel was definitely removed a few years ago. A dot matrix display was installed roughly in it's place at the same time (which was probably the reason for it's removal). Warblington has also been removed as of last Saturday. My son recorded the platform there (and at...

No worries! I was under the impression that the machine at Aldrington was long gone. I certainly didn't see it last time I was there. Fishersgate's wasn't even fixed to the ground properly last time I saw it but I'm not aware it's been removed. Warblington's machine has also now definitely...

The machine at Ford has been removed, I will try and take a look at Nutbourne on the way past there today. The machine at Holmwood was still in situ as of yesterday morning. 1742644973 Nutbourne has been removed as well.

Graham Eccles (former Managing Director of South West Trains) wrote a post on X earlier this year about this (which is well worth a read) - https://x.com/gceccles/status/1754145050299105744 Many stations in the South East had them installed shortly after privatisation, so around 1997-1999...

Priori to the previous comments on Chiltern Railways machines being removed, Sudbury and Harrow Road's machine had also been removed when I visited a couple of weeks ago.

Hi all, long term lurker here! I travel at least once a week between Horsham and Leatherhead and in the past month the Permit to Travel machine at Warnham has been removed. A new information display has been installed in its place and a defibrillator has also been installed on the wall behind...