Chiltern Railways is rolling out a new phone-based paperless ticketing system. Initially testing with 50 passengers, the company plans to roll it out across its whole network in two months’ time, before possible nationwide use.
The system, where tickets are bought by mobile phone, should cut queues at ticket offices. Once purchased, travel details are displayed on the phone’s screen, to be scanned at the barrier or shown to an on-train inspector.
A spokeswoman talking to London Lite described the scheme as ‘completely secure’.
— NikLeave a Reply
A new Facebook page is angling for free Underground and Overground travel for the whole of January, but what will it achieve?
Today’s tube strike is just a taste of things to come with the unions promising further action in 2011.
Rail fares are heading skywards next year. Atoc has confirmed an average increase of 6.2% for 2011, starting in January.
An answer to my question. I’d emailed to ask what ‘poor track conditions’ means, and it seems it’s a cover-all for general rail problems. I wonder if that’s a reaction to the general ribbing the train operators got to the ‘wrong kind of snow / leaves on the line’ excuses they gave years ago, as… Read more…
Is Orwell running the trains these days? None of my trips to or from work have been without problems this last week or so. Yesterday’s total morning journey took an hour longer than usual, door to door, and this morning it was a good 30 minutes over the usual stretch. Why? Well, this morning it… Read more…