Re: QR and Photographers

["Graham Watkins" <gwatkins@globec.com.au>]

Owen Cook <rcook@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000 17:44:50 -0800, pdwyer
> <pdwyerNOpdSPAM@ecn.net.au.invalid> wrote:
>
> >3. Technically, unless you have a ticket, you also have no right to be
> >on a platform. Your mere prescence increases the level of risk to other
> >paying QR customers.
>
> 50 years ago in Qld, we were required to have platform tickets...cost a
> penny. Don't know if it is still the case, but at least it legitimised
> your presence on the station.
>
>
> Owen
>

You don't require a ticket to access a platform. You need a valid ticket to
travel on a train and the ticket machines and ticket offices are usually on
the platforms.