Every Silverlink train on this route has a guard (or whatever else they're
called). Their sole job appears to be to open/close the doors at each
station. Do they not have any revenue/ticketing duties? A few stations on
this route have no ticket machine, and in my limited experience of travel on
this line the guard never appears to check tickets (probably due to stops
every 3-4 mins). I bet Silverlink Metro must lose a fortune in revenue on
this route. It will be interesting to see how the new operator this year
tackles the revenue side of things.

Toby wrote:
Every Silverlink train on this route has a guard (or whatever else
they're called). Their sole job appears to be to open/close the
doors at each station. Do they not have any revenue/ticketing
duties? A few stations on this route have no ticket machine, and in
my limited experience of travel on this line the guard never appears
to check tickets (probably due to stops every 3-4 mins). I bet
Silverlink Metro must lose a fortune in revenue on this route. It
will be interesting to see how the new operator this year tackles the
revenue side of things.

Someone asked this same question about a month ago and there were several
responses suggesting that for most of the day ticket checks are made at some
point along the route. IME, usually doing the line from end-to-end in the
afternoon, I don't recall ever making a journey where my ticket was not
checked en route, which supports the opinion of the other posters. However,
I suspect that, during peak hours, there is more likelihood of the guard
getting waylaid issuing penalty fares, which probably prevents him getting
far along the train - given that he needs to be back in the back cab to give
the right-away from every station and the distances between them are not
that far (at the western end, at least).

I think almost none of the stations have ticket machines! Harringay
Green Lanes - the one near me - is by far the busiest station between
Gospel Oak and Barking, and even that station doesn't have one.

"sweek" wrote in message
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I think almost none of the stations have ticket machines! Harringay
Green Lanes - the one near me - is by far the busiest station between
Gospel Oak and Barking, and even that station doesn't have one.



I've seen them checking tickets a few time from Blackhorse Rd to Upper
Holloway and they have one of those machines to issue tickets. They don't
seem to bother checking Oystercards for travelcard holders

On 23 Jun, 01:01, "Nicola Redwood" nicolaexternal-
wrote:
"sweek" wrote in message

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I think almost none of the stations have ticket machines! Harringay
Green Lanes - the one near me - is by far the busiest station between
Gospel Oak and Barking, and even that station doesn't have one.

I've seen them checking tickets a few time from Blackhorse Rd to Upper
Holloway and they have one of those machines to issue tickets. They don't
seem to bother checking Oystercards for travelcard holders

My Oyster card has never been checked on any National Rail service so
far. Is there a distinctive lack of Oyster readers or something?

Nicola Redwood wrote:

I've seen them checking tickets a few time from Blackhorse Rd to Upper
Holloway and they have one of those machines to issue tickets. They don't
seem to bother checking Oystercards for travelcard holders

Strange - everytime I've seen a ticket check (to the north west of Wanstead
Park) they've used an Oyster reader.

On 22 Jun, 00:41, "Jack Taylor" wrote:
However,
I suspect that, during peak hours, there is more likelihood of the guard
getting waylaid issuing penalty fares, which probably prevents him getting
far along the train - given that he needs to be back in the back cab to give
the right-away from every station and the distances between them are not
that far (at the western end, at least).

The only I've seen a ticket inspector/seller on the line, it was a
separate person to the guard.

U

Mr Thant wrote:

The only I've seen a ticket inspector/seller on the line, it was a
separate person to the guard.

And all the times that I've been checked it was the guard!

In article ,
Jack Taylor wrote:
Mr Thant wrote:

The only I've seen a ticket inspector/seller on the line, it was a
separate person to the guard.

And all the times that I've been checked it was the guard!

It varies; there was a patch a month or two back when there was
always guard and a seperate ticket inspector (I assume there was
a fair evasion blitz, and that the ticket inspectors normally
worked elsewhere on the silverlink network).

These days the ticket inspectors always have oyster readers,
but they don't always use them.

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