Its more like 100k for a ticket vending machine, otherwise you need to staff the office 18 hours a day
The booking station lock out is trivial to bypass but its there to ensure people don't book tickets which they can't collect. That said the collection list is purely to ensure you choose a station which has collection facilities, you can in fact collect anywhere with a machine regardless of what you specified
There are 103 stations with ticket collection currently out of 142 stations (Manualla Junc doesn't count), thats 72.5% of stations. Several managers in Irish Rail have confirmed to us that subject to money being available every station will have a ticket machine in coming years. Several more stations receive them this year
On paper there is little to be saved as a day saver return to Dublin returning on an evening train results in the same fare as if booked online
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