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So if the people who occasionally come on here having been Penalty Fared or worse for standing in a First vestibule, had been a bit lighter on their feet and scarpered, they'd have got away with it?!

Are there any circumstances where walking through First Class is allowed, eg alerting train crew to a problem, or even an emergency, in standard class?

Whilst Fandroid may have exaggerated to make a point, the fact that (maybe thousands of?) tickets are routinely sold by train guards every day, and the historical prevalence of this practice during the era of open, unstaffed stations (heavily marketed as "Paytrains" in BR days), combined with...

I believe there were problems throughout the train, though I couldn't move, as it was rammed! On the second point, this suggests very poor design to me. Any stock that is effectively sealed, without opening windows, needs to have a failsafe system, either manual or automatic, to divert fresh air...

After the experience of travelling on a Pendolino with no, or minimal, air conditioning yesterday, I found myself wondering why it is that train AC units don't seem to default to ducted fresh air (blown through by the forward motion of the train) when in failure mode? Maybe not ideal, but a lot...

It doesn't seem equitable, but when you have nothing to lose, the equation of punishment and "correction" becomes distorted. And who wants to be a person with nothing to lose?

The marginal cost of him travelling on a train is as close to zero as it is possible to get. Unlike, say, a "Tik Tok Influencer" showing people how to dodge fares, nobody is going to want to emulate him. The costs of enforcement against him are, ironically, the true costs to the railway and...

When did I say it was? It isn't honest at all, that isn't what I said - there are many examples on here of people who have been dreadfully and repeatedly dishonest. My point is that in using criminal prosecution processes - and in TfL's case, pretty much blanket use of them - then that process...

This is an interesting viewpoint. Just to be clear on what you are saying, you believe that a highly proactive prosecution policy reflects a "determination to act in the public interest"? And that therefore, people being scooped up into the criminal justice system irrespective of intent...

Having read many posts about train fare enforcement measures and consequences, it seems to be the case that there are policy extremes within the UK - from Transport for London apparently churning through tens of thousands of criminal court convictions, to the apparent marked absence of people...

It's difficult to tell from the spin-filled videos, but it looks as though the couple tried to intervene and send the paving workers away from "their" land (which they say now includes the entire area of the "former" station and more besides), but oddy stopped when the BTP, who had shown the...

When you say you "ran into this"....not literally I hope! Bashes to the shins can be most painful.....

This image has appeared on the "Altnabreac Uncovered" YouTube channel, apparently showing large flower tubs quite close to the platform edge / door opening areas at Altnabreac station. Does anyone know if there are regulations about the positioning of potential trip hazards near platform...

Thanks!

Could you have caught trains from Manchester Central to either Hale, Cheshire (near Altrincham), or Hale Banks (for the different village of Hale, also in Cheshire, but on Merseyside)?

It used to be commonplace for traffic light junctions to feature pneumatic strips 30 or 40 yards ahead of the lights, allowing the lights to be "informed" of the approach of a vehicle. My very law abiding grandfather used to get off his bike and jump up and down on the strips to change the...

Ummm....that is no longer a given. Though the odds of The Great Leveller intervening do, naturally, increase.

So, I stand corrected. America has made its choice, and we all have to live with the consequences. Will we now hear of further allegations of electoral fraud? I highly doubt it.

Sadly, it is as clear as day what will happen here. The pattern of vote counting tends to produce results from rural areas first, and they tend to be Republican. On the basis of those results, whether he has really won or not, Trump will declare victory. Then if Harris overtakes him, he and his...

How many of you can remember when each individual station had its own landline telephone number? And staff to answer when you rang? Not that they were always intelligible, or had any useful or accurate information to impart.