Stuck in the past with your train ticket?
Rail travellers are wasting over four hours a month killing time at Britain's train stations, according to new findings out today.
With Brits renowned for queuing it's perhaps no surprise that over 30% of British rail travellers up to 30 minutes before their train departs, according to thetrainline.com, in anticipation for waiting in line.
But the early arrival is often in vain as over a quarter of people have missed their train at least once because of queues at the ticket office or ticket collection machine.
For those that have spare time available after collecting their tickets almost a quarter (22%) of rail passengers 'people watch' to pass the time, while one in five (20%) sit down for a coffee and 15% buy a magazine or book.
With rail travellers spending so much un-productive time at the station the launch of more convenient ticket fulfilment method from thetrainline.com will be welcome news. 'Print Your Own', an e-ticketing revolution for the rail industry, gives passengers the option to print their own train tickets - enabling them to save time and avoid queues.
The launch of Print Your Own signals a pioneering rail industry innovation and one of the biggest revolutions in ticket fulfilment since the leading online retailer helped to establish 'ticket on departure' almost a decade ago. Continuing its successful relationship with the industry and train operators thetrainline.com trialled its e-ticketing technology on a few niche routes successfully fulfilling over 400,000 Print Your Own tickets during the pilot phase.
Now thetrainline.com has launched the service on Advance Fares for all Cross Country routes and will continue to work with other train operating companies to roll the service out on more routes across Great Britain.
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