Originally Posted by
sbm12
And FWIW, at the train stations where Chip+PIN is required at the train ticket machines the agents at the windows are generally able to sell you a ticket with a US-issued card, though possibly with a small surcharge for an agent transaction.
True, unless they're closed or unstaffed.
Visa is apparently not happy that not all of the machines are able to recognize and process non-chip/pin cards without PIN.