Davetrials Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 (edited) do they just give you a fine?how much usually? Edited April 26, 2006 by Davetrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleb Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 they ring for police to escort you off at the next stop.pretty big fine from what i remember . . .depends how they feel i suppose but i wouldnt risk it with a bike . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RicH_87 Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 yeh i'm sure i read it could be up to £5000 on a poster on one of those train toilets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan6061 Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 My mate at work tried this. Was something like £30 for him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simpson Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 My mate at work tried this. Was something like £30 for him?ye thought it was like a tenna for a child or what i was always told because sometimes at that price might be worth the risk - never bothered trying to though too much hasstle if you get caught. i always get child at 16 im not paying adult im still at school an on a paper round so im not paying £10 to get to london! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 £20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 umI rarely pay for a train ticket at the booth and just buy one on the train instead (If i get caught). Maybe its different here though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JT! Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 If you can be real convincing and pretend you just forgot becuase you were late, and ask if you could pay for the ticket there and then. You could get away with it untill your first caught. After you've been caught, don't do it again.Or you could just buy one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Ward Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 Well just don't do it, if you really want to be hard( like me ) just make sure you can get a ticket on the train if you don't get one on the platform IF youre going to a station that has barriers because u'l get raped on the way back.I hardly ever buy a ticket unless i go to southampton, if the man comes around just say to him you barely got on the train and need to buy one now, they shouldnt heave a problem with that aslong as you have the money or they find you hiding in the toilets and then the'y fine you either £20 or 2x the ticket price(whichever is the most) and if you refuse they citezens arrest you and have escorted from the next platform by the old bill.sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 Happened to my mate a few weeks ago. Going from Reading to Farnborough North (about 5 stops, 20 minute journey) at least 150 people from college get the train. So when everyone piles off at Farnborough, the train people decided to stick for hench men with ticket collectors to check everyones tickets. About 50 of us have passes, so we went through fine, but people who pay on the train, quite often don't have to, because there are so many people the conductor doesn't get to them. Then when the hench men began asking for tickets they got names and numbers and addresses, everyone who had a pass or proof they paid every day got away. £150 fine for all those that had no proof. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 I have always known them to be £20 but meh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Arnold Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 £20costs more than 20 to get to brighton, might just pay that fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feest Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 for southwest it is £20 or twice the fare to the next station (whichever is more) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 Although I've never been on a train where I haven't had the chance to buy the ticket on board. I think out of many, many train journeys, I've only not been asked for my ticket once.On another note: Railcards for the win.On another note also: "feest" made me think of "Feasts", which are some tasty motherf**king ice creams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feest Posted April 26, 2006 Report Share Posted April 26, 2006 Although I've never been on a train where I haven't had the chance to buy the ticket on board. I think out of many, many train journeys, I've only not been asked for my ticket once.On another note: Railcards for the win.On another note also: "feest" made me think of "Feasts", which are some tasty motherf**king ice creams.that is "siggable" shizzle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 what you going to brighton for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadManMike Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 South eastern trains are running strict policies now mate. You get a hella big ear bashing and they can fine you what they like...Different regions ae different but the Brightonians don't like fare dodgers.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted April 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 its 20mins with no bike 2 stops..just means i dont have to spend 11quid.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Clark Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 No-one ever really checks out here in East Anglia, if you do get caught, I think it was like £10, maybe £20.Also a good thing to do, at stations you get permit to travel machines. You get these if you don't have time for tickets or something, then you pay at the station you get off at.Get one of those for like 50p, then if you get caught, say you nearly missed the train and pay then. In the likely case that you don't, you get it for 50p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davetrials Posted April 27, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 (edited) ill just say ill pay now then. if i get busted. Edited April 27, 2006 by Davetrials Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 costs more than 20 to get to brighton, might just pay that fine A night out in Brighton and you'll need more than £20, you'll need stitches in your ass hole. Lots of fudge packers round that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_soon_to_be Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 ha ha, just like that f**king pizza place, all the people next to us....that got me nervous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revell-Bikes Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 i got caught a couple of times...but got away with them ha!as im deaf all i was to confuse the conductors by signing to him fully.and make up by saying " sorry i lost mine as it slipped out before i got on the train" etc.but now its no point for me to f**k the tickets as i now have a disabled travel card! Pat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Although I've never been on a train where I haven't had the chance to buy the ticket on board. I think out of many, many train journeys, I've only not been asked for my ticket once.On another note: Railcards for the win.On another note also: "feest" made me think of "Feasts", which are some tasty motherf**king ice creams.I once got on a train in cardiff, aiming to get to tenby (bout 3 hours away). Didnt buy a ticket cos I had to run for the train and planned to get one on there. Got all the way to Swansea without them coming round and checking. Anyway, carried on going and it broke down about 100 metres outside of swansea, so after about 30 mins of waiting they managed to drive us back into swansea station and moved us onto a bus (after another 20 minute wait). Bus drives for about 10 minutes, before it pulls into a lay by and everyone going to carmarthen/tenby way is told to get get off, and get onto another bus in the lay by. So did that, and got to carmarthen. In carmarthen a mini bus was waiting, me and one other woman got on, taking up 2 of the 15 seats. She gets dropped off about 5 minutes away and I get personally escorted to my front door. Took about 4 hours in total, and the whole way nobody asked for a ticket. I would have claimed my money back, but seeing as I never paid you cant complain really All for free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 I nearly always just get the ticket on the train. In Manchester they're not arsed. When the conductor asks for tickets, you just ask really nicely to buy a ticket and it's cool. No-one's ever mentioned fines at all, despite what the posters say. You can always just say you got on at a small station with no office (if there are any on the line, obviously). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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