In message , at 19:22:33 on
Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Chris Read remarked:
Yes, that's a possibility, but for a tiny minority of passengers. I expect
the rest will be asked to pay a penalty fare.

Really?

Yes, the "possibility" referred to above is the passenger boarding at a
station with the need to get a PTT and then needing to exit at a
FCC/Thameslink station (and therefore needing an excess fares window
inside the barrier line).

Compared to people who deliberately boarded somewhere without a ticket
(or bought short) and then try to buy a ticket at the destination when
they discover a barrier line.

The excess fare window at my local station (Barking) does a brisk
trade in ticket sales, and it is evident that few questions are asked,
despite both c2c and London Underground operating a Penalty Fare scheme in
this area.

So they have a less aggressive policy than FCC (probably due to the
different culture at a joint LUL/NR station).
--
Roland Perry