Top excuses for Fare Evasion on Translink NI Railways services

[Traincustomer]

Translink NI Railways has revealed some of the most outrageous excuses used by passengers attempted to travel without paying for their tickets!

http://www.translink.co.uk/Services/...ways-services/

(Came across this just now. Piece was published on NI Railways site just in the week gone by. I think this is the best forum in which to place it)

[comcor]

"I just bought this ticket before I got on the train, your machines must be wrong" (Customer with an out-of-date ticket)

I find this an interesting one having fallen victim to a similar incident myself in The Netherlands.

In my case, I was supposed to get fined, but I was so determined about it that I made the inspector return to the machine (I was still on the platform waiting for my train) to prove that the machine was issuing tickets with the wrong date.

Had I been stopped later in my journey, I'm not sure what I could have done, short of pointing out that the ticket was in fairly pristine condition for one that was supposedly issued in 1970.

So, while that kind of incident doesn't happen often, it can happen.

As for me, I check my ticket when it's issued now.

[Mark Gleeson]

Given NIR don't have TVM's the story doesn't stack up

Fare evasion is low in NIR due to conductors on each train

[Concerned Worker]

Do Translink have a Conductor on every service ?

[Thomas Ralph]

Originally Posted by Concerned Worker

Do Translink have a Conductor on every service ?

Definitely on all NI Railways branded services. Not 100% sure about the Enterprise.

[Mark Gleeson]

Every train, it down to Translink not having the safety equipment to operate driver only.

Probably also down to the fact NIR has been operated by a bus company for 30 years, very few stations have the ability to be staffed