I was waiting a comically long time for the machine to stop printing. Some of them are reservations for the same seats, broken up into different legs of the same journey…

by themothhead

28 comments

  2. I like this. You could keep them and make your own train themed Uno style game

  3. Well need to get your moneys worth. How much did it cost? How are you going to deal with the ticket checker, are you going to drown them in this?

  4. Split ticking I assume via one the apps/sites that specialises in optimising for the cheapest journey cost.

    One the many quirks of the system.

  5. Just as well you weren’t printing at home. Think of the cost of ink.

    Clogging an e-wallet wouldn’t make it easier.

    Epic. Congratulations.

  6. I would still rather do this than have a QR code (not really, but travelling with tickets just feels right)

    Post this to r/mildlyinfuriating !

  8. This is one of the things a single “Great British Railways” is intended to stop.

    Yet years ago, in London, we could book through tickets that included any Tube transfers across London.

  9. If you’ve ever booked the old Cardiff to Southbourne ticket cheat then this is normal…

  10. It’s almost as if our rail network could do with an update.

    My idea is to charge by the mile, then add/subtract a percentage at different times of day/week (for rush hour and weekends etc.).

  11. That’s why the train is so expensive! Too much printing going on.

  12. From Stevenage to Chester, I had about 8 😅 I would’ve had a meltdown with 26 lol 😭

  13. Can someone explain what exactly happened here?

    Why are there so many? Are they all different?

    I’ve only been on about six trains in my entire life, and most of them were when I was a kid.

  14. Good job you didn’t try and reserve a bike space as well, you’d have broken into triple figures

  16. Once upon a time – long, long ago, you used to buy one ticket. Of course that system was impractical and unwieldy, so gvt improved it.

  18. I’m kind of surprised to see physical tickets! Mine always are just an email.

  21. Print some photos of your trip and use these as the border around the pictures

  22. No wonder train fares are so expensive, a small tree has been cut down for two people’s tickets

  23. On a somewhat related note. I went to a small train station with luggage the other week, and instead of waiting to get my ticket, a man with a portable machine waved me in through the gates calling me “young man” (I’m 31) and asked me where I’m going. When he punched it in he realised the price was like £16, and started tutting and split the tickets, dropping the price to £9 for me.

    So split ticketing is useful for cost reasons. But also, I’ve never felt so old as when a gentleman helped me with my luggage and called me young man.

  24. A good chunk of those are seat reservations, you big tease!

  25. I had a similar wad of tickets when I went from North Wales to Yorkshire with a bike.
    Outbound Ticket.
    Seat reservation for two trains.
    Bike reservation for those two trains.
    Extra copies of the bike reservations to affix to my bike.
    And the same for the return journey.

    Doubled because there were two of us travelling together. Twenty-eight tickets in total!

  26. At least they’re proper tickets and not the BS paper ones some stations are giving out.

  27. I thought that’s was speeding tickets for a second then. I know they have 20 mile speed limit but that’s ridiculous

  28. My anxiety of losing the one actual required ticket that makes all the others valid.

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