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Originally Posted by swisstrains
I don't think ticket machines are the answer at unmanned country stations because they are too susceptable to vandalism as the railways discovered to its cost a few years ago when some machines in Cheshire were wrecked within hours of being installed.
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It's not the rural stations in Cheshire like Mobberley, Ashley and Delamere that have problems with vandalism, most of those are are in very good condition. It's stations in small towns like Knutsford and Northwich that are staffed part of the time but not late in the evenings that have problems with vandalism.
Also Northern installing ticket gates at big stations where random ticket checks are already carried out won't make any difference to people starting and ending their journeys at smaller stations.