The ticket not being displayed has happened to me recently in Kent Station in Cork. I placed my ticket on my dashboard, locked up and went to the train and it was only when I returned in the evening that I noticed that it had blown over and was upside down on the dash, which must have happened when I was locking up the car.
Paying for parking at the station is an additional cost to the cost of the rail ticket. Costs in Kent have gone from €6 in May 2007 to €6 later in the year to €7 euro in June 2009. A 40 % increase over 24 months is not good value for money at all.
New ticket machines have been installed in Kent this summer and to pay for a 1 day ticket with a credit card means punching in 50 c one by one to reach the €7 euro total. Not fun at 6 am when there is a crowd building behind you and not much time until the train goes and you have to press a button 14 times to get the correct fare. Plus not all ticket machines now take credit cards. I can only look forward to doing this in the dark in the winter, when I have often thought about bringing a flashlight along so I can see what I am doing at the ticket machine.
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