Travelling from York to London I always have my ticket checked. This may be due to York having no barriers.
Good going. Let's see more of it.Barriers were closed at Kings Cross at 2pm-ish this afternoon.
I noticed that a Revenue Protection Officer (title on badge) boarded the train at Peterborough and checked all the passengers who boarded at Peterborough.
If she is on commission she will be smiling tonight as she nobbled at least four people with Great Northern only tickets and gazumped another couple for £40 each in excess fares to upgrade from standard. That’s was coach K alone.
A similar situation regarding on-train checks has arisen between Manchester Piccadilly and Euston. Since the installation of gates at Piccadilly, I could likely have travelled on the train before the one I booked on my Advance - on both trips I got there while the previous train was still on the opposite platform and there wasn't an on-train check on my train. It's not a huge sample size, but I can't see why it's any more likely there was a check on the other train.
Barriers were closed at Kings Cross at 2pm-ish this afternoon.
I noticed that a Revenue Protection Officer (title on badge) boarded the train at Peterborough and checked all the passengers who boarded at Peterborough.
If she is on commission she will be smiling tonight as she nobbled at least four people with Great Northern only tickets and gazumped another couple for £40 each in excess fares to upgrade from standard. That’s was coach K alone.
it is all too easy for a dodger to remain silent when the guard walks through asking for "tickets from X"
As LNER are a public service, perhaps they don't care about collecting revenue as much as say Virgin as they are less likely to get sacked?
Temporary manned barriers in operation. Will be needed especially on more localised services as trains will be severely crowded today meaning many onboard revenue duties will be impossible.York? Isn't the bridge public access to the NRM? We went through this years ago and they didn't install barriers because of this.
What happens with grand central pax who want to pay on the trainTemporary manned barriers in operation. Will be needed especially on more localised services as trains will be severely crowded today meaning many onboard revenue duties will be impossible.
Don't know.What happens with grand central pax who want to pay on the train
In theory they should check everybody because it is all too easy for a dodger to remain silent when the guard walks through asking for "tickets from X", and unless the guard has a good memory ("hang on that pair of seats were empty beforehand" they can get away with it.
I'm not sure why the onboard staff would care?
Equally there are also never any ticket checks on board Cardiff to London GWR services.
Equally there are also never any ticket checks on board Cardiff to London GWR services.
sweeping statement- there certainly are on the trains I work.
I think it’s clear from this thread that there are just too many variables to define wether something does or doesn’t happen. Everyone has a different experience, travelling on different services at different times.
Sometimes tickets get checked, sometimes the barriers are closed, sometimes neither happens...
If she is on commission she will be smiling tonight as she nobbled at least four people with Great Northern only tickets and gazumped another couple for £40 each in excess fares to upgrade from standard. That’s was coach K alone.
No need to write anything on here, this information is already accessible elsewhere and has been for a while. If there is a particular staff member you wish to avoid or a station you want to check is barrierd it is not difficult to find out which is probably one of the reasons levels of fare evasion are so highI don't think posting live updates as to which stations have full barrier operation/manual ticket checks is a good idea. It could make this thread a source of information for fare-evaders, which is not desirable.
Well that was very naughty of her! I thought if you have an invalid ticket then they can only charge the difference betwern the invalid one and the correct one you should have had, the same way the couple were excessed to first from standard?
What happens with grand central pax who want to pay on the train
They are allowed through. I don't know who was manning the temporary barriers at York yesterday but in the past it has been private security who have not got a clue about the validity of tickets.What happens with grand central pax who want to pay on the train