"Jonathan Morris" wrote in message

I have no problem with that. I've boarded HEX in a hurry and not only
had to pay the surcharge but also lose my railcard discount. It's still
cheeky that they PF'd you (see my comment above about a similar
situation) when you were perfectly open about it. I guess they figured
that you might do this regularly and bank on there NOT being someone.

Do you buy a ticket at your destination or consider yourself lucky when
there isn't anyone on the train doing a check? That decides if you're a
fare evader or not, especially as the conditions of travel on FCC say

On the occasions where I couldn't or didn't for whatever reason, purchase
a ticket in advance, and happen not to see a grippeur on the train, I
always seek out a member of staff to pay the PF at the destination (or
interchange if appropriate). Sometimes they tell me not to bother, or
just charge me the single or whatever.

In all cases, I have never left the network without at least attempting
to find a member of staff when I don't have sufficient ticketage.

In one case, I couldn't find a member of staff until three days later
(Watford Metro). The member of staff that I found was an RPI. I informed
him that I still owed LUL a PF from "last wednesday", and paid the PF
accordingly.

I've even paid a PF using Oyster Prepay (LUL) and using Rail vouchers (FCC)
!

I am going to have a tee-shirt made up "RPIs are nice people, p.s. the
ticket
machine wasn't taking notes today".

Richard [in SG19]



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