I always thought it was that, but I think it is see it, say it, sorted which I think has a worse ring to it
Can you elaborate on that?
Especially bad on the 378s with their door pockets taking up window space. The 710s and especially the S stock with their bigger windows allow a reasonable view out, even when sideways.
Where it's been young people deliberately making excessive noise with their electroniic devices, I've used a dog whistle app on a mobile a couple of times. It can emit a continuous or pulsed tone at frequencies above my hearing limit but well within theirs. That's a bit like the 'mosquito' devices that some convenience stores use to deter groups from hanging around outside the premises making a nuisance of themselves. I doubt that one of them would have the gall to object to somebody else's unwanted noise.
Where it's been young people deliberately making excessive noise with their electroniic devices, I've used a dog whistle app on a mobile a couple of times. It can emit a continuous or pulsed tone at frequencies above my hearing limit but well within theirs. That's a bit like the 'mosquito' devices that some convenience stores use to deter groups from hanging around outside the premises making a nuisance of themselves. I doubt that one of them would have the gall to object to somebody else's unwanted noise.
If you're on a line where you don't expect a ticket check, can be pretty annoying to have it dig it out and interrupt what you're doing. Especially because some apps make it a bit more of a faff than necessary to get to the etickets (*cough* LNER).
I'm aware of that but they have been grateful for the removal of the original irritant.
Remember some adults (including me) can hear that, though. I find it quite unpleasant.
That's all part of the wonderful new world of electronic tickets that some here seem to want.
That's all part of the wonderful new world of electronic tickets that some here seem to want.
It's a season ticket worth over £2,000! I'm hardly likely to leave that out on the table while I'm snoozing, am I?
Speaking as an ex-guard - albeit many years ago - if I were on the same job all week, I would check the tickets on a different section of the journey every day, sometimes starting at the front of the train and sometimes starting from the rear. In that way, the regular avoiders couldn't predict when they needed to hide in the toilet or pretend to be asleep. Surely it's no great inconvenience to show your season ticket quickly to the conductor, especially if you have it in a pocket from which it can easily be reached. Don't forget that it's people like that who serially avoid payment of fares that make your season ticket cost as much as it does! In the case of your Leeds-Barnsley service - presumably in the evening peak - there's not a great deal of point checking tickets before Wakefield, as the vast majority of passengers from Leeds will have passed through the gateline there and I suspect that few, if any, will join the train at Woodlesford. However a large number will join the train at Wakefield Kirkgate, which is a busy station with no barriers and a booking office which is frequently closed in the afternoon in my experience.
Maybe she was hoping to refund it, which she was probably able to had it not been scanned.
Good thinking!
Which if true, is all the justification for random ticket checks so that others don't freeload.
Definitely on the 331s. I was travelling between Stockport and Manchester on one a few weeks back and I thought something had dropped on the roof out of the sky!!
