SOUTH West Trains is reporting a fault on all of its network's ticket machines today.
The train firm is reporting that ticket machines across its network will only be able to accept card payments only today.
#InformationSWT We are sorry that the ticket machines across our network will accept card only today, please speak to the Guard for help.
— South West Trains (@SW_Trains) August 19, 2017
The train firm, which has been operated by Stagecoach Group for the last 20 years, is set to be rebranded as South Western Railway at 2am tomorrow.
The £2.4bn deal will see a British and Hong Kong partnership taken over the company.
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