Originally Posted by Pierre

As I’ve said earlier. I don’t know what magical part of the country we’re talking about where these ticket offices exist.

But up here in West Yorkshire (apart from Leeds and possibly a handful of other stations I don’t know about) there hasn’t been a ticket office for well over a decade, probably two.

As long as there is a guard on the train (and in that argument I am on the side of the Rail unions) then you don’t need ticket offices.