In article <3f09ab63.3474122@text.news.ntlworld.com>,
pj.lawrence@ntlworld.com (Peter Lawrence) wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 22:38:08 +0000 (UTC), Matthew Malthouse
> <usenet@calmeilles.> wrote:
>
> >Having guided the Americans through getting tickets to Gatwick I was
> >astonished that there seems to be no means of buying more than one
> >ticket per transaction. That means that the whole process had to be
> >repeated three times and then on the tird the machine rejected the
> >credit card used as having "exceeded the limit for this card at this
> >machine today".
>
> I did not know this limit per card existed.. Is any warning given of
> it (at Stansted or anywhere else)? If it is the same limit as applied
> for petrol purchases (£50 per day AFAIR) it seems inappropriate.
It's just the large machines (Swiss-made, forget the brand, "Al-"
something) which can only do one ticket at a time. The smaller credit card
only Shere machines can do multiple tickets, including adults plus
children, but still can't do more than one transaction on one credit card,
a problem if buying on different railcards.
WAGN just don't help themselves sometimes. My ticket is never checked at
times of disruption, like when I went from Cambridge to London via
Stansted the other morning.
--
Colin Rosenstiel
Bloody ticket machines 
