| Comment | The old machines were knackered and couldn't be replaced and the tickets had metals in the black stripe for the magnetic encoding. Its part of a nationwide plan to get rid of the magnetic stripes.
The size of the paper ticket is governed by national specs so it's a UK rail industry abomination, rather than a uniquely ScotRail one!
As someone else mentioned, if you buy on the app you get a QR code and it reads fine on the gate as it can't curl up like a paper ticket does. |
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