Re: New Countrylink/QR reservations computer (and the ticketing)

["WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

Iming Chan <ichan@primus.com.au> wrote in message
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> WhaleOilBeefHooked wrote:
>
> > Got my first glimpse at the new res computer this evening - looks very
> > cumbersome to use. Took ages to issue the ticket, and I had the
reference to
> > quote, etc.
> >
> > The tickets are interesting. The ticket I received had my reservation
> > details printed on a plain white sheet of paper, and stapled into the
> > standard Countrylink ticket folder. There is no printing on the paper
(apart
> > from the reservations details) and no watermarking or embossing. The
fonts
> > used are standard fonts used in Word (and other WP programs).
> >
> > How easy will this be to fare evade? We have all seen cases in our
travels
> > of people who are not on the conductors diagram. It will be dead easy
for
> > someone with a ticket (to act as a guide) to knock one up on their home
> > computer, staple it into an old ticket cover, and show up. What
Passenger
> > Attendant/Conductor is going to query it when that person is boarding at
> > Goulburn at 2320 or Taree at 2210, etc.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen them? Anyone got any comments?
>
> For Countrylink services, tickets are generated from TRAINS computer
(until
> further notice), so they are printed from our regular V/Line thermo ticket
> rolls.  Tickets from new V/Line reservation (V/Net), are also use V/Line
thermo
> ticket rolls.  No white paper used here.

The new res computer is in use for all services from 1 November. TRAINS will
not (or so I am told) accept bookingss for after 31OCT99.

I will scan the ticket in and post it, so that people have an idea of what
it looks like.....oops, better not, they might want to copy it to get free
travel.

DaveP