Re: Ticket offices only accessible from platform

In message <Xns99C123BB1CA0rabbiteergmailcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, at 18:13:18 on Fri, 5 Oct 2007, David Buttery <rabbiteer@xxxxxxxxx> remarked:
I found out today that to buy a ticket at Hall Green station in Birmingham,
one has first to go onto the platform as for some reason the waiting room-
cum-ticket office is only available from there - there's no door from the
station forecourt. While waiting for my train, I wondered:

1) How many stations have such a setup? I can't think of any others I've
been to which have a ticket office which is unreachable from the outside of
the station.

Meldreth is like that. The ticket office is a window off the waiting room which itself is off the platform.

2) Given that anyone who doesn't have a prepaid ticket (I did!) will
necessarily be on the platform without a valid ticket for a short time, are
there any regulatory consequences?

It would be odd to have a compulsory ticket zone at such a station, but stranger things have happened!
--
Roland Perry
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