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Your ticket is your proof of purchase and is your entitlement (in most cases) to travel. Please remember to keep it safe, clean, dry (yes some people think its funny to soak the ticket), and always keep it to the end of your journey. Your journey does not end when you get off the train, it ends when you leave the railway station.
When you get off the train please take your ticket out of your wallet and have it ready for inspection by the ticket inspectors at the station entrances/exits. Always assume there will be ticket checks.
If there are automatic ticket gates, you will need to put your tickets through the slot below the big green arrow. Just because your a lazy communter who cant be bothered to take your annual gold card out of your wallet doesnt mean you can go through the wide gate. You have to put your tickets through the gates like everyone else has to. Your not special you know!
Did you know that if you fail to go through the ticket gates correctly that you are in breech of a railway byelaw?
9. Stations and railway premises
(2) Where the entrance to or exit from any platform or station is via a manned or an automatic ticket barrier no person shall enter or leave the station, except with permission from an authorised person, without passing through the barrier in the correct manner.
Correct manner is described as above, and NOT THROUGH THE WIDE GATE.
If you fail to show a vaild ticket on demand by an authorised official (that includes ticket collectors, fraud officer and security guards) that you are also in breech of a railway byelaw.
17. Compulsory Ticket Areas
(2) A person shall hand over his ticket for inspection and verification of validity when asked to do so by an authorised person.
18. Ticketless travel in non-compulsory ticket areas.
(2) A person shall hand over his ticket for inspection and verification of validity when asked to do so by an authorised person.
That meens that if you are asked for your ticket, you must take it out of your wallet and hand it to an authorised official. Just flashing it is not acceptable.
However if your season ticket generally does not work, i.e. not because you want to save time and are a lazy communter who cant be bothered to get it out of your wallet, you can go to the ticket office to get a replacement free of charge. If you have to do this once a week then you must do it once a week.~
Keeping your ticket next to a blackberry, a mobile phone, an oystercard or somthing that generates a magnetic field will wipe your ticket and make the ticket barriers reject your ticket.
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I am looking forward to the gates at Hatfield station (April or May I believe, although the best part is the new security measures that will hopefully stop them jumping the walls - should be fun to watch them try!) but I have to admit that taking the ticket out will be a right PITA. Apart from saving money, part of the reason for combining an Oyster card with a point-to-point season ticket was to do away with the need to remove my ticket, which regularly needed replacing to pass through the gates. When FCC finally gets them at Kings Cross too, it will no doubt cause queues to mount up, although at least a few people like me will be able to swipe our Oyster cards there. One thing is clear though; it will stop people waving anything at the inspectors. I’ve only ever shown my Gold Card, which is only valid to Hadley Wood!! The Oyster gives me the coverage the rest of the way, but nobody has looked (or used their ‘magic wand’) since they started checking regularly around April/May 2006! I am totally legit, but how many others are showing out of date, invalid tickets etc? The alternative would be chaos though; imagine checking every single ticket thoroughly!
I hope the gates will work. Having seen the ones at Stevenage, it seems quite easy to double up and even to jump them. While I know there will be staff there, I have seen many times where inspectors at Hafield will not pursue those who stick their fingers up and walk through - so why shouldn’t they double up or jump? They’re not always so lucky (some inspectors are pro-active and give chase) but will the gates really be effective against those who have no intention of paying and aren’t scared of a court giving them a fine they won’t pay, or giving false details to avoid a penalty fare?
Time will tell.
Comment by Jonathan Morris — January 9, 2007 #
I have seen some people jump over Stevenage barrier, I wasnt working that day, but I was going to grab the little scroat and drag him back but decided the company would have not liked that.
Comment by admin — January 9, 2007 #