Is it just me or does it seem like National Rail train companies enforce the fines aggressively while TfL doesn’t seem to do much hence people are so comfortable barging past the ticket barriers or following people closely past the barriers?
Wow this is very bigoted against immigrants.
Fuck privatised rail.
Took SWR a month and a half to fix a fucked ticket machine, so I was forced to overpay for tickets. Took a few hours on the phone and an in person visit to their event (which cost me money) to get them to agree that I could be refunded the difference, let alone *not be forced to pay extra because they refused to fix a machine.*
All I really wanted was my refunds and assurances I wouldn’t be given a penalty fare for travelling without a ticket on those lines at that time of day, which they refused to give. They gave me 20 quid in the end. Not enough to be worth the time and travel mind.
Most of the fare evasion is people buying a ticket from Wembley Stadium or South/West Ruislip when they’ve come in from further afield, rather than people not buying a ticket at all.
West Ruislip is £5.60 for a peak single and it’s about double that from Denham which is just one stop further but critically outside the TfL fare zone.
Meanwhile Chiltern are incredibly unreliable, about once a week everything goes tits up because one of their trains breaks down on the line at peak hour. Or they’re short forming peak hour trains so people can’t even get on five stops out. They even hit cows on the line two nights in a row last year.
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Good! Lock these thieves up!
Shocked and appalled
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Good
Hmmm Chiltern serve West Ealing?!
Is it just me or does it seem like National Rail train companies enforce the fines aggressively while TfL doesn’t seem to do much hence people are so comfortable barging past the ticket barriers or following people closely past the barriers?
Wow this is very bigoted against immigrants.
Fuck privatised rail.
Took SWR a month and a half to fix a fucked ticket machine, so I was forced to overpay for tickets. Took a few hours on the phone and an in person visit to their event (which cost me money) to get them to agree that I could be refunded the difference, let alone *not be forced to pay extra because they refused to fix a machine.*
All I really wanted was my refunds and assurances I wouldn’t be given a penalty fare for travelling without a ticket on those lines at that time of day, which they refused to give. They gave me 20 quid in the end. Not enough to be worth the time and travel mind.
Most of the fare evasion is people buying a ticket from Wembley Stadium or South/West Ruislip when they’ve come in from further afield, rather than people not buying a ticket at all.
West Ruislip is £5.60 for a peak single and it’s about double that from Denham which is just one stop further but critically outside the TfL fare zone.
Meanwhile Chiltern are incredibly unreliable, about once a week everything goes tits up because one of their trains breaks down on the line at peak hour. Or they’re short forming peak hour trains so people can’t even get on five stops out. They even hit cows on the line two nights in a row last year.
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