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Thanks to a reminder from another blogger who is listed on my blogroll I have been reminded of the fact, the 7th Annual Bloggies are open for nominations.
(http://2007.bloggies.com/)
This will be the first time and first year that I have asked for all of you readers to nominate this blog.
Please could you nominate this blog TheTicketCollector in the following categories:
Best British and Irish Blog
Best Topical Blog
Best Newcomer
I would be very gratefull if you would nominate this blog. Of course you have to feel that this blog warrants it!! But im sure it does, complete with the mix of inside information and a slight hint of humor. You must nominate at least two other blogs as well, so that makes a total of three, this would be a great way to say nominate your own blog or even a mates blog at the same time!!!
To nominate please go to http://2007.bloggies.com/.
The Nominations Close on Wednesday 10th January 2007
Your ticket is your proof of purchase and is your entitlement (in most cases) to travel. Please remember to keep it safe, clean, dry (yes some people think its funny to soak the ticket), and always keep it to the end of your journey. Your journey does not end when you get off the train, it ends when you leave the railway station.
When you get off the train please take your ticket out of your wallet and have it ready for inspection by the ticket inspectors at the station entrances/exits. Always assume there will be ticket checks.
If there are automatic ticket gates, you will need to put your tickets through the slot below the big green arrow. Just because your a lazy communter who cant be bothered to take your annual gold card out of your wallet doesnt mean you can go through the wide gate. You have to put your tickets through the gates like everyone else has to. Your not special you know!
Did you know that if you fail to go through the ticket gates correctly that you are in breech of a railway byelaw?
9. Stations and railway premises
(2) Where the entrance to or exit from any platform or station is via a manned or an automatic ticket barrier no person shall enter or leave the station, except with permission from an authorised person, without passing through the barrier in the correct manner.
Correct manner is described as above, and NOT THROUGH THE WIDE GATE.
If you fail to show a vaild ticket on demand by an authorised official (that includes ticket collectors, fraud officer and security guards) that you are also in breech of a railway byelaw.
17. Compulsory Ticket Areas
(2) A person shall hand over his ticket for inspection and verification of validity when asked to do so by an authorised person.
18. Ticketless travel in non-compulsory ticket areas.
(2) A person shall hand over his ticket for inspection and verification of validity when asked to do so by an authorised person.
That meens that if you are asked for your ticket, you must take it out of your wallet and hand it to an authorised official. Just flashing it is not acceptable.
However if your season ticket generally does not work, i.e. not because you want to save time and are a lazy communter who cant be bothered to get it out of your wallet, you can go to the ticket office to get a replacement free of charge. If you have to do this once a week then you must do it once a week.~
Keeping your ticket next to a blackberry, a mobile phone, an oystercard or somthing that generates a magnetic field will wipe your ticket and make the ticket barriers reject your ticket.
So its finally happened, The Smoking ban on railway stations is finally coming into effect.
Midland Mainline (that rather small TOC that runs trains painted green), has decided to ban smoking in all of its platforms and staff areas.
Theticketcollector think that this is a good idea, why should non smokers have to suffer the stinky dirty fag smoke? I think there should be one very small room with a small window for smokers only. If smokers want to smoke they can all cram into a small room and smoke. Oh and charge them a £20 ‘upgrade’.
I am also hearing that some FCC stations are about to go non smoking on the whole of the station.
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