Mutant Lemming
Established Member
Do any heritage lines operate a penalty fare system ?
Do any heritage lines operate a penalty fare system ?
I'm sure heritage railways come across that sort of passenger (people who make a mistake) all the time! If they are treated harshly they will never return.No, but I've come across the sort of passengers who penalty fares were created for!
I'm sure heritage railways come across that sort of passenger (people who make a mistake) all the time! If they are treated harshly they will never return.
I doubt that a heritage operator would be successful in an application to create a PF scheme and I also doubt that they would try. It would be utterly foolish and ridiculous and I would certainly boycott such a heritage railway and am sure many others would choose not to visit them either
Penalty Fares are intended as a means of charging people a disproportionately high amount of money when they make a mistake, the idea being people will be more careful not to make mistakes
Could I also add "and as a deterrent to the pay-when-challenged type of passengers*" (*as I'm not allowed call them fare-evaders).
i would argue that group of users are part of the "professional fare evader" type, along with the poeple that don't pay but expect to be caught so infrequently that its worth it.
I doubt that a heritage operator would be successful in an application to create a PF scheme and I also doubt that they would try.
Given that the trains to Whitby often appear in the NRT and on live departure boards, I am unsure what they can do if someone declined to pay, other than ask them to leave at the next station (which may be their destination anyway). I know one TTI who said he'd accept them.Slightly off topic, do the North Yorkshire Moors railway have any legal powers if anybody attempted to use a National Rail ticket on one of their Battersby / Grosmont - Whitby services.
Whereas everybody knows that's MY jobsome appear to think it's their job to put passengers off and ensure they don't return.
While some appear to think it's their job to put passengers off and ensure they don't return.