Probably due to the strike.
It would be £134.20 for a through Anytime fare on the train, not £63.
You mean if they don't consider it a concern?
Various potential reasons; if you have a particular location in mind, try a search as there may well already be a thread for it.
Sometimes it's not possible due to the geography for the station, for instance if they put barriers to platform 7 at Inverness they would block off the barbers' and the through route to the bus station via the car parks.
Almost as frustrating are the staff who position themselves on the other side of the gate from where they need to tap a card/ turn a key and therefore have to reach across each passenger in turn. (Though that may be a design fault in that there's no room for them to stand in such a position.)
Almost as frustrating are the staff who position themselves on the other side of the gate from where they need to tap a card/ turn a key and therefore have to reach across each passenger in turn. (Though that may be a design fault in that there's no room for them to stand in such a position.)
Those platforms are almost exclusively used by long distance operators (with very few exceptions).
There are barriers wide open during daytime at the entrance from the footbridge at Birmingham New Street onto Hill Street. Anyone without a ticket could easily enter or exit this way.
Exactly. The last two times I have used those platforms there has been a manual ticket check before boarding, something relatively commonplace for Virgin Trains.
RANT ALERT:-
The worst things about automatic barriers is when the staff who are supposed to be supervising them, and assisting passengers (like myself) holding tickets which do not operate the barriers, are chatting to each other instead of concentrating on their work.
This has caused me to miss a train on one occasion (yes, Birmingham Snow Hill, I'm looking at you).
Almost as frustrating are the staff who position themselves on the other side of the gate from where they need to tap a card/ turn a key and therefore have to reach across each passenger in turn. (Though that may be a design fault in that there's no room for them to stand in such a position.)
100% a design fault at New Street at least. They should have designed the barrier with a centre refuge for a member of staff to stand in, or more gates should have been provided, preferably spaced further apart. Presumably the people who designed it weren't familiar with barriers not accepting valid tickets... The kind of gap in understanding between theory and reality that we see play out on this forum every so often too.
Though at New Street half the escalators still don't work. Sewage leaks into the station every so often. The huge fans installed at platform level randomly go at screaming full blast when the platforms are empty or full of EMUs, yet are often off when you can chew on the diesel fumes. And it was designed so that the station is essentially redivided into Midland and London North Western sides, reintroducing the division that the 1960s designers managed to eliminate from their design. So in the grand scheme of things the barriers aren't such a failure.
Oh well, only a few decades until they rebuild it again.
