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Originally Posted by tkboomer2
I'm not opposed to ticket barriers I'm just saying that many people trying to board trains at stations like Manchester Piccadilly, Liverpool Lime Street and Leeds without tickets finish up having to purchase a ticket anyway.
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My apologies. I attributed the anti-barrier comments to you instead of the thread starter "hstudent". He is another Mid-Cheshire passenger......Do you know him by any chance?
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Originally Posted by tkboomer2
I'm not saying that there does have to be ticket machines at those mentioned stations. (It probably wouldn't be profitable to have machines at Ashley or Delamere.) I'm just saying that the really rural stations in Cheshire don't get problems with vandalism, it's usually the more urban stations with limited staffing hours.
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I can accept that these stations don't have problems with vandalism at the moment but would that change if the local louts had ticket machines to play with? We will probably never know.