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Update 1008 20 September 2023

By popular demand, HOPS has developed a ticket sales system over the last couple of years. Like all HOPS developments, this has been done on the basis of participating railways sharing best-practice and everyone benefitting from everyone else's input - it is a system specifically designed for heritage railways, with direction and development steered by heritage railways, and all revenue raised staying in the heritage railway sector to further develop the system. On Wednesday 11 October 2023 there will be an opportunity for railways to view the progress so far and feed back on the suggestions and requirements for development towards making this a system that, like HOPS, all heritage railways can use and benefit from. There will be two (identical) meetings, one at 2pm (primarily to allow employed members of railway staff to attend during office hours) and one at 7pm (primarily to allow volunteer railway staff to attend). There will be a presentation of the development of the system so far, followed by an open-forum discussion. We will be pleased to hear suggestions, ranging from the nice-to-have to the must-have from all railways. The meeting will be held via MS Teams, and those who wish to attend should please email steve.morris@hops.org.uk to obtain the meeting link. Please let us know which railway you're from when emailing and whether you wish to attend the 2pm or 7pm session. The ticket system can be seen in public use at some early-adopter railways: sdr.hops.org.uk/tickets perrygrove.hops.org.uk/tickets sps.hops.org.uk/membership