"Dave A" wrote in message
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John B wrote:


I hope they take a hard line on the revenue issue off-peak, because of
the knock-on security implications (ie antisocialists tend to travel
without tickets, and there are too many of them on the GOBLIN and NLL
- although they wisely avoid peak services). If it's cost-effective to
provide gates etc to enforce payment on-peak, I hope they do that too;
if it isn't then I'd rather they spent our money on improving the
service...

Not sure what the line regarding on-board inspections will be, but
apparently the vast majority of GOBLIN passengers pass through a select
group of stations; there are proposals to gate these stations, hopefully
forcing the opportunistic fare-evaders into ticket purchase.


Not quite Goblin, but on a WLL service this afternoon there was a very
thorough ticket check, Oyster Travelcards were checked, and the staff were
also recording destinations into Dictaphones.

Paul