Unable to buy a ticket at the office

"Minnie Goodsoup" <minnie.goodsoup@> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.02.14.18.37.39.713433@...
> If I go to a train station, try to buy a ticket and get told they cannot
> change a £10 but I haven't got time/patience to get change and I get on
> the train without a ticket am I still liable to the same penalties?
>
> What if I want to pay by card and I'm told their card reader is broke?
>
>
Where did you get your penalty fare?

"Minnie Goodsoup" <minnie.goodsoup@> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.02.14.18.53.13.701651@...
> 4sub wrote:
>> "Minnie Goodsoup" <minnie.goodsoup@> wrote in message
>> news:pan.2006.02.14.18.37.39.713433@...
>>> If I go to a train station, try to buy a ticket and get told they cannot
>>> change a £10 but I haven't got time/patience to get change and I get on
>>> the train without a ticket am I still liable to the same penalties?
>>>
>>> What if I want to pay by card and I'm told their card reader is broke?
>>>
>> Where did you get your penalty fare?
>
> I didn't, but I did have to get on a train once without a ticket because
> the office could accept neither my £10 note or a credit card.
>
>
No problem then, no penalty fare due then. What ticket office was it?

"Minnie Goodsoup" <minnie.goodsoup@> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.02.14.19.00.39.735076@...
> 4sub wrote:
>> "Minnie Goodsoup" <minnie.goodsoup@> wrote in message
>> news:pan.2006.02.14.18.53.13.701651@...
>>> 4sub wrote:
>>>> "Minnie Goodsoup" <minnie.goodsoup@> wrote in message
>>>> news:pan.2006.02.14.18.37.39.713433@...
>>>>> If I go to a train station, try to buy a ticket and get told they
>>>>> cannot change a £10 but I haven't got time/patience to get change
>>>>> and I get on the train without a ticket am I still liable to the same
>>>>> penalties?
>>>>>
>>>>> What if I want to pay by card and I'm told their card reader is
>>>>> broke?
>>>>>
>>>> Where did you get your penalty fare?
>>>
>>> I didn't, but I did have to get on a train once without a ticket
>>> because the office could accept neither my £10 note or a credit card.
>>>
>> No problem then, no penalty fare due then. What ticket office was it?
>
> Perry Barr. Only been unable to pay with card there one time, although the
> guy at the counter usually pulls a face when I pay with a £10.
>
>
I was amongst the first group of RPI's trained in the Penalty Fare Act a
long time ago.
At lot of care was taken then about the quality and traing of 'Authorised
Persons'. Not so now........

"Minnie Goodsoup" <minnie.goodsoup@> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.02.14.18.37.39.713433@...
> If I go to a train station, try to buy a ticket and get told they cannot
> change a £10 but I haven't got time/patience to get change and I get on
> the train without a ticket am I still liable to the same penalties?
>
> What if I want to pay by card and I'm told their card reader is broke?

What if I... don't tell you.

Ken Ward, Bolton.
~

where I used to work, BTH, our travel centre had a cash machine
implanted on the outside wall. Securicor used to come every day to
'fill up the machine', at the same time our change came in that same
van.

There was always always at least two of those £500 in £1 coins bags.
So always £1000 in £1 coins. Yeah the 50ps and 20ps went pretty
quickly.

Now days I expect this daily change delivery has been modified to once
a week, with the majority of people paying by plastic or even cheque.

even funnier is when they put the twenties in the tenner tray, cue a
huge queue of people (including staff) taking out tenners.