Everyday my local train is full of people sitting in First Class who haven't paid for the privilege. Why are the revenue protection officers not doing their job?
This morning I issued 12 penalty fares to people who were sitting in first class when they shouldn't have been. I'm usually on commuter trains but we can't be everywhere all the time.
If you have a daily grievance with this I suggest contacting the train operator and informing them of the service that's a problem .. then they can send revenue officers to deal with that train until the problem subsides.
As the rail network and train operating companies have been privatised, why does fare evasion remain a criminal offence? Surely it should now be a civil matter like not paying the correct fare.
Because evading your fare is stealing. Doesn't matter if the company you're stealing from is state owned or private.
Our job is to prevent fare evasion. How would you feel if you paid £4000 for a yearly ticket but then everyone around you was just boarding the train without paying their way?
So your job is for the benefit of paying passengers?
From what I see the rail companies don't give a shit about passengers. The management are only interested in targets and making money, and the staff - especially the platform staff - are lazy fkrs who try to get away with doing as little as possible. The people in the ticket booths are invariably miserable bastards.
And as I said earlier - the ticket inspectors are for the most part half-witted arseholes. Not much different to parking wardens.
So your job is for the benefit of paying passengers?
From what I see the rail companies don't give a shit about passengers. The management are only interested in targets and making money, and the staff - especially the platform staff - are lazy fkrs who try to get away with doing as little as possible. The people in the ticket booths are invariably miserable bastards.
And as I said earlier - the ticket inspectors are for the most part half-witted arseholes. Not much different to parking wardens.
Because evading your fare is stealing. Doesn't matter if the company you're stealing from is state owned or private.
Yes, but if I was caught shoplifting at my local supermarket it wouldn't be Tesco who would have me hauled in front of the Magistrates Court, it would be the police/CPS.
How is the best way to evade a fare without getting caught and prosecuted?
hide in the toilet
or knock on the toilet door when it's occupied and say in a loud gruff voice "tickets please!" the poor person inside doing a poo will hand his ticket out without looking who it is just to get them to go away and leave them to finish their bowel movement in peace.
Why do different companies have different rules. SWT and Great Western seem to allow people to buy tickets on the train if you talk to the Guard after getting on the train, but I've seen a TV program about GNER and you received a pently fair straight away. This seems inconsitant and confusing to passengers from other regions if travelling on to a GNER train for example.
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Conductors and revenue officers are two different things.
We're not really. We have to be firm and authoritative when dealing with fare evaders but that's just what the job is.
This morning I issued 12 penalty fares to people who were sitting in first class when they shouldn't have been. I'm usually on commuter trains but we can't be everywhere all the time.
If you have a daily grievance with this I suggest contacting the train operator and informing them of the service that's a problem .. then they can send revenue officers to deal with that train until the problem subsides.
Because evading your fare is stealing. Doesn't matter if the company you're stealing from is state owned or private.
So your job is for the benefit of paying passengers?
From what I see the rail companies don't give a shit about passengers. The management are only interested in targets and making money, and the staff - especially the platform staff - are lazy fkrs who try to get away with doing as little as possible. The people in the ticket booths are invariably miserable bastards.
And as I said earlier - the ticket inspectors are for the most part half-witted arseholes. Not much different to parking wardens.
And here we have it.
In your eyes, anyone who doesn't have a ticket is deliberately evading their fare, and deserves to be treated with contempt.
Just putting it out there, but why else would you not have a ticket?
If you'd boarded at a station where there was no machine/office then you should seek out the guard to buy one.
Yes, but if I was caught shoplifting at my local supermarket it wouldn't be Tesco who would have me hauled in front of the Magistrates Court, it would be the police/CPS.
The vast majority of commuter trains don't have guards - or 'train managers' as they laughably call them nowadays.
I wish they would teach them how to keep to a timetable. Not many know how to do that.:(
Make sure you are on the train where the "revenue protection officer" is on his laptop answering questions on the net?
Of course. It's so simple really.
I love train travel, but £25 return from hull to Scarborough....**** off.
hide in the toilet
or knock on the toilet door when it's occupied and say in a loud gruff voice "tickets please!" the poor person inside doing a poo will hand his ticket out without looking who it is just to get them to go away and leave them to finish their bowel movement in peace.
You try to help people...
I'm a 13 year old girl - ask me anything
> what's it like to be a 50 year old single bloke
it got more profane . . .