Local ticket offices (rail) Options

[Richard Garvie]

Hi, just a quick post. When I was politically active in West Berks, I led a regional campaign to save ticket offices. The Telegraph have today published a list of ticket offices that will be axed, and it appears only Newbury, Didcot, Reading and Basingstoke will retain them with all the others locally being closed (including Thatcham which takes almost as much money as Newbury).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/roa...s-to-close.html

[Biker1]

Hi, just a quick post. When I was politically active in West Berks, I led a regional campaign to save ticket offices. The Telegraph have today published a list of ticket offices that will be axed, and it appears only Newbury, Didcot, Reading and Basingstoke will retain them with all the others locally being closed (including Thatcham which takes almost as much money as Newbury).

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/roa...s-to-close.html

I think saying "will be axed" might be a little over reacting.
These are are the offices that were recommended to be reviewed for possible closure in the McNulty report of a couple of years ago.
The emphasis being on "recommend". The DFT stil has to make decisions on this.
A new ticket office and other station facilities are currently being built a Theale so yes, you are probably right about that one!!
Funny how Pewsey is not on the list. Does an MP or someone high up live there? Only has about 8 trains a day!
You are wrong about Thatcham by the way, it takes nothing like as much as Newbury.

[pbonnay]

When I need to travel into London, I now buy my ticket via the FGW website - and you get Nectar points too.

Then I only need to collect my ticket from a machine at the station.