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Re: Cityrail - magnetic tickets

I bought a Red Travelpass quarterly at Artarmon on New Year's Day. I used it
to travel by train (only) that day. the next day, I used it on a bus, and
then tried to use it at St Leonards station. "Invalid - see attendant"!!
Eventually got it replaced - clerk at season ticket office at Wynyard told
me if you put a ticket in the machine on a bus straight after a pensioner
has used the machine, it screws the data on your ticket!!! (The ticket would
still display its info on the booking office readers).

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Rgds

Ron Besdansky
(Computer system project manager and rail enthusiast)
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"Albert Alcoceba" <alberta@ihug.com.au> wrote in message
3a619433.27094634@news.syd.ihug.com.au">news:3a619433.27094634@news.syd.ihug.com.au...
> On 28 Dec 2000 02:06:04 GMT, thebaron@nospam.ozemail.com.au wrote:
>
> >In my experience it's usually the machine and when i try it again next
> >time it works.
> >
> >Of course you could just been unlucky and got a dodgy ticket but
> >does anyone know how difficult it is to cwstuff up the magnetic strip?
>
> Very easy with bus and ferry machines as they write information to the
> strip.  If it goes in the wrong place.... zap!
>
>
> Albert Alcoceba
>   <><
> alberta@ihug.com.au
> http://homepages.tig.com.au/~alberta