All change for student on train

It took over a minute for all the coins to come out of the machine

A student hurrying to catch his train home almost missed it when a ticket machine gave him his change in ten pence coins - 187 of them.

Ben Hardy, 26, had just paid £1.30 for a ticket to Yardley Wood from Birmingham's Moor Street station using a £20 note.

He said the change just came gushing out "like a torrent of 10ps".

"It was like winning on the slot machines. It took over a minute for them all to come out," he said.

"I scooped them out of the bottom of the machine and put them in my bag and made it just as the train doors were closing."

Chiltern Railways which operates the machines has said it is unusual and offered to change the money over into notes.