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Isaac
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Jan 13, 2013, 6:55 PM

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I was told by a member of staff that leaving barriers shut and unattended is a disciplinary offence, if you go to the loo or whatever you get somebody else to cover or leave them open, there could be an emergency where the station has to be evacuated.

It would be very rare to find barriers still in use after about 7pm at any Kent station, of course after 7pm is when vandalism and anti social behaviour is most likely to happen but that doesn't seem to matter.
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As I have a Staff Travel Pass I never have a ticket, which has led me to miss trains whilst queuing at the gates (most recently due to a late bus connection in Reading where I would definitely have made the train had there been no gates) and in one case I actually had to jump them because the person manning them had wandered off somewhere and couldn't be found! Passengers with Rover Tickets, Seasons, web tickets, and luggage all suffer this on a regular basis too.
Have also encountered this problem.
As the barriers have to be manned when they are working anyway I can't see the point of having them as many passengers have to show their ticket to someone for the aforementioned reasons, so why not just have someone checking tickets! Crazy



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Jan 14, 2013, 6:19 AM

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I travelled through Ilford last weekend and only two of the four lines were open with inevitable delays.

Bloody Pikeys......
This is now the normal service at weekends.
Although on Saturday they went one better and ended up with no trains at all for most of the evening Mad



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wishmaster3211
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Jan 14, 2013, 10:48 AM

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As the barriers have to be manned when they are working anyway I can't see the point of having them as many passengers have to show their ticket to someone for the aforementioned reasons, so why not just have someone checking tickets! Crazy
This is an entirely reasonable point which would mean they are only of benefit at busy stations, in other words, where it would be quicker to put a ticket in a gate machine than show it to a member of staff unless they had hordes of staff on. The security issue is therefore a bit of a red herring and the expenditure on them even more ridiculous. Probably dreamt up by someone in the DFT or the Home office who never travels outside the London Commuter belt.



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Isaac
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Jan 14, 2013, 12:19 PM

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As the barriers have to be manned when they are working anyway I can't see the point of having them as many passengers have to show their ticket to someone for the aforementioned reasons, so why not just have someone checking tickets! Crazy
This is an entirely reasonable point which would mean they are only of benefit at busy stations, in other words, where it would be quicker to put a ticket in a gate machine than show it to a member of staff unless they had hordes of staff on. The security issue is therefore a bit of a red herring and the expenditure on them even more ridiculous. Probably dreamt up by someone in the DFT or the Home office who never travels outside the London Commuter belt.


It makes sense at busy stations where there are so many passengers passing through that it would be impossible to check tickets manually but at most stations ticket barriers are just a nuisance and no real benefit to anybody.

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