Ticket Stamping

[2Funki4Wheelz]

In a very messy Heuston last night, due to the 17:50 Galway MIA.
The board displayed this as 15 mins late so any Portarlington commuters switched queues to the 18:05 Portlaoise.

When the 18:05 started boarding, I noticed the queue was very slow. Found out why when I got to the top. The ticket checker was insisting on stamping multi-journey tickets, weekly/monthly etc which involved people having to stand about fishing them out of wallets.

He took my travel wallet off me (ticket & ID displayed in a clear windows) and said - 'We have to mark all the tickets at least once'.
'But it's a monthly, I've never had one stamped before'.
'We have to do it to prove travel'.

Huh? It's not like if it's unstamped I can get a refund. Any idea what all that was about?

And they really pick their moment, slowing a queue on a busy train that's already late boarding.

[Mark Gleeson]

This started last week

I have some thoughts on what is going on, there has been talk of a coordinated hit on IE by exploiting various grey areas in Irish Rail procedures. I will admit I do my best to take advantage myself when I can

Equally there is now a sustained effort to catch fare evaders

And before anyone asks exit validation has been mentioned for Heuston

[Thomas J Stamp]

Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

And before anyone asks exit validation has been mentioned for Heuston

Hence the clearance of the railings in preperation fact fans Oh it'll be chaos.

[2Funki4Wheelz]

This is ocassionally happening but for some reason in Heuston it's always the same checker guy (nice tattoos), no one else does it.

I'm asking for a decent explanation the next time - I know they have every right to inspect my ticket - I wonder if the stamping is for IE so they know it's a kosher ticket?

If so, I'm sure the fraudsters can come up with a bit of purple ink and a date stamp.