Station closed but want to get train?

pclancy · 22-10-2007 6:39pm #1

Coolmine station office is closed now but i wanna get a train to connolly later? How do I get a ticket and not get slapped with the fine when i get there?

KC61 · 22-10-2007 6:54pm

If the ticket office is closed, you are permitted to board a train without a ticket and pay at the destination.

pclancy · 22-10-2007 7:06pm

Defo? Dont want a fine....I dunno why they dont just let you use the auto machines after the teller goes home.

Skyhater · 22-10-2007 7:35pm

Because little louts will rob it!!!

Yea!! Defo, you can purchase the other end..... But you must buy the ticket at first departure point. Eg.... If you going to Lansdowne Road, you must buy ticket at connolly before boarding the DART.

mikemac · 22-10-2007 8:26pm

The other posters are right, sure how else would people in Broombridge manage.

pclancy · 22-10-2007 11:56pm

Cool was able to purchase as ye said. Im just full of the experience of watching people getting lashed with fines every morning at pearse from the maynooth train cos they were too late to buy a ticket or something....forgot about broombridge that must be a pain in the neck.

Ham'nd'egger · 23-10-2007 1:29am

pclancy wrote: »

Cool was able to purchase as ye said. Im just full of the experience of watching people getting lashed with fines every morning at pearse from the maynooth train cos they were too late to buy a ticket or something....forgot about broombridge that must be a pain in the neck.

Don't worry about them, almost all of them fall into the "I meant to get one but I was late etc etc" class.

The situation is, if there is no way to buy a ticket at the station (ticket office, conductor/guard on train, ticket machine), you pay at the next available point on your trip; normally this is as you alight the train though it can be at a change station. If you feel a bit nervous about it, take a pic of the ticket office closed.

daymobrew · 23-10-2007 12:22pm

pclancy wrote: »

forgot about broombridge that must be a pain in the neck.

One time in Drumcondra I saw a woman pay for a Broombridge to Drumcondra ticket, but she had gotten on before I boarded at Coolmine. I feel guilty for not saying something.

Polar101 · 26-10-2007 3:15pm

Hamndegger wrote: »

The situation is, if there is no way to buy a ticket at the station (ticket office, conductor/guard on train, ticket machine), you pay at the next available point on your trip; normally this is as you alight the train though it can be at a change station.

I was wondering about this. If I want to, say, go from Clonsilla to Bray - but the Clonsilla ticket office is closed, do I have to get my ticket in the city (and miss the DART connection while I'm at it), or can I buy my ticket when I get to Bray?

mikedragon32 · 26-10-2007 3:47pm

Polar101 wrote: »

I was wondering about this. If I want to, say, go from Clonsilla to Bray - but the Clonsilla ticket office is closed, do I have to get my ticket in the city (and miss the DART connection while I'm at it), or can I buy my ticket when I get to Bray?

I know... It's terrible when you miss the DART and have to wait whole minutes for the next one...

That said, I can't remember the last time I had my ticket checked in Bray.

sickle · 26-10-2007 3:54pm

Well yes it is a pain, the DARTs aren't that regular. Its happend to me many times that my station has been closed on sundays, there could be up to an hour between darts so fecked if i am getting off at the next available station to get a ticket. Never had any issues with paying at the other end in that situation. Then again I havent used the dart in quite a while now so things may have changed.

Station closed but want to get train?

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