Re: Ticket offices only accessible from platform

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:13:18 -0500, David Buttery
<rabbiteer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

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?

I seem to recall from waiting for my wife there, that Bradford-on-Avon
has such an arrangement. It was closed, anyway, and the ticket machine
was on the platform.
--
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org
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