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

[On the edge]

I must admit, I now always use the machines. I'm not exactly a fan of FGW but they do seem to be pretty well laid out. There are also FGW and National Rail apps that show you what's happening for connections. In reality, it's just technology changing job roles, after all, the engines don't need firemen these days either! (Yes I know, mores the pity, but then by now we'd have had automatic mechanical stokers...)