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Old 19th July 2007, 09:51
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................... When I boarded the train I had my change and railcard to hand but the conductor walked straight past me!
So I asume you said..."Excuse me but I haven't paid yet"

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The man selling tickets in the ticket office should really have said to the person wanting an advance purchase to come back in 10 minutes, as there would then be about 35 minutes before the next train.
Yes, I couldn't agree more but he had the poor overstretched conductor on the train to fall back on.

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However, on other ocassions I've had to show my ticket to the same conductor more than once as he or she hadn't remembred me showing them a ticket.
That's really inconvenient isn't it? There's nothing worse than having to get your ticket out twice.
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