IEs hard-on with ticket barriers - I object.

[Colm Donoghue]

I've said it before- if you cannot buy a ticket at your station of departure (because the station is closed or there is no ticket machine available) then irish rail's system is gonna cause hassle.

i can't agree with mark about tara st being better with exit validation. i soent over seven minutes waiting to get out one saturday night as the magstripe o my ticket failed ( after considerably less than the 12 months it's supposed to) and the ticket checker sold everyone getting of the train their tickets before letting me out .

the gates are slower too, and if you stand in te wrong place they don't open even after you take your ticket out of the machine.

my wife was made walk backup te stairs frm the townshend st exit, along the platform ad out onto the quay and back up tara st cos there was no-one to let her out after the machine failed to read the magstripe on her annual ticket on several occasions.

[CorkMan212]

I think it really is a pain in the h*le especially there one morning a while back in Raheny station.

The barrier was just going up when I arrived, walked in the ticket machine said "we do not take coins or give coins, notes only,no change will be issued"
I'm hold about 2 euro in my hand for a day return to Connolly. How am I supposed to get a ticket at that stage if the machine won't even take money!?

Luckily enough the station manger walked in at that moment and opened up the booking office. Crisis averted.

[Mark Gleeson]

There is no legal obligation to use the machine, you may travel ticketless and pay at end

[zag]

Mark,

How does that work if the barriers won't let you on the platform without a ticket ?

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[Mark Gleeson]

There is meant to be a member of staff on duty at every set of barriers

[danielfelice]

Grand Canal Dock is a joke in the mornings. I go from Clonsilla to GCD which is a pain in itself with the amount of people jammed on the train, and then I have to wait up to 10 minutes to get out of the station.

There are a few hundred people going through a 2 metre hole in the wall through the barriers, plus the other few hundred people coming in from the Lansdowne Rd end who meet us at the bottom of the stairs.

They have plenty of room at behind the box where the barriers are but it is wasted at the moment...

[Aphfaneire]

I have allready seen how you can evade getting a valid ticket checked if you leave from the right place and exit at the right station.


The other week i bought a return ticket for the day in drogheda. I was waved through with the morning crowds, ticket not checked. I then exited at pearse, ticket not checked. I then headed home and was worried i would have to get another ticket as i was going back in for a night out and then comming home the next day.

But i read my ticket and it wasnt a daily return, it was a ticket that provided return within a few days, and was valid for use untill the next month. As it had not been checked at all by anyone i thought id risk using it again. And it worked with no hassle. And i put it in the machine in pearse on my return journey the next day and it flew through without getting caught.

I took the train 4 times in and out over two days on a ticket that was only supposed to cover one day. Now my bizzare ticket might have been because i got the new ticket guy in drogheda, but i still didnt get caught out.