Rangers and Rovers on London Overground TVM

[47513 Severn]

While topping up my Oyster at New Cross Gate this afternoon I noticed the London Overground ticket machines now offer some Rovers and Rangers, including the All Line Rover.

See the attachments, there was a second page of available tickets (not sure why, there is plenty of blank space on the first page!) including the Thames Branches Day Ranger and some other South East oriented rovers.

Is this a recent innovation? I haven't seen it before but I seldom have need to use these machines. I'm not sure how confident I would be buying an ALR that way, the potential for it to print incorrectly or get stuck in the chute would be a worry.

Edit: See the next post for another picture, it seems I can only attach one per post.

Another screen picture showing one page of available tickets.

 

[crehld]

I think London Overground TVMs have been selling rovers for a while now. The Virgin machines at Crewe have started selling the West Midlands Day Ranger too (although no others at this point). It's a positive step I think, and quickly dismisses the spurious argument that TVMs cannot be programmed to sell ranger/rover products, and that they cannot be sold online for TOD collection because the TVMs aren't programmed to issue them.

 

[AlterEgo]

Very positive. Now let's see if LOROL accept an ALR! They have a history of being difficult with them.

 

[swt class 450]

This is brilliant. It would be good if Southern started doing this considering that they use the same type of TVMs (Shere) as London Overground.

 

[Mojo]

It's been available for at least a 14 Months now, possibly longer.

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=115866&

 

[Bungle965]

This is very good (old) news, because I have a feeling it would be quite difficult to get the ticket office clerk to issue a Rover/Ranger, as it seems to be quite a `challenge` to get them to issue you with something that is not a walk up Single, Return.
Sam

 

[185143]

This is very good (old) news, because I have a feeling it would be quite difficult to get the ticket office clerk to issue a Rover/Ranger, as it seems to be quite a `challenge` to get them to issue you with something that is not a walk up Single, Return.
Sam

Or a travelcard...