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It would cause RailUK's traffic in D&P to increase by at least an order of magnitude, so that's a good thing. :)

OK, let's take the above as given. What is the relative feasibility, in theory and in practice, of the following two options? Just to be clear, given the above they are mutually exclusive and comprehensive (there are no others). 1. No rules. 2. 100% implementation of rules.

You could easily make a straightforward revenue argument, coupled with a pretty understandable desire to limit unpleasantness as far as possible. It doesn't take many 10 minute stand-offs (quite possibly punctuated liberally with "**** ***" and the like), each of which result in zero revenue...

Agreed, but many who call for consistency should be careful about what they wish for. Were consistency really implemented, the length and loudness of the squealing up and down the country would be positively deafening. But yet you would acknowledge what would surely happen if they did try...

Happens on pretty much every SWT 10-car 444 or 12-car 450 that stops at Clapham Junction Platform 7, every day. This is despite what seems like non-stop announcements from Woking.

I don't want to drag this off-topic, but this is basically false. I find it a little hard to believe you're not over-egging this a bit. Or maybe you're a nervous flyer and it's flying in general rather than with Ryanair you're on about :wink:

Heading way back upthread, I have to say you're good at this advice lark yorkie. The OP asked "which carriage?" You replied with "it'll either be at the front, the back or in the middle" They said "Brilliant". :lol:

Without wanting to seem unkind, most of the different opinions here probably stem from the shaky and uncertain reports of the chain of events (which is entirely understandable). In my view all you need to know is in post #2. It isn't what you want to hear, but it sounds very much like every...

A bloody big stone's throw (in fact two) assuming the North Korea situation is broadly as it is now. About 250 miles undersea from China to South Korea and something approaching that again to Japan. If Japan is the primary aim then the stated proposed route via Salakhin is probably "easiest".

Further up the Waterloo-Reading line, just short of Richmond in the down direction. Having passed through the relatively pleasant and posh-seeming parts of Barnes and Mortlake, to my mind the view over the allotments on the left as you approach North Sheen seems a bit, well, post-apocalyptic...

Or perhaps the transit area of Sheremeteyevo airport.

Sigh. The whole point concerns what constitutes "refusal to accept". If you simply re-state that as a black-and-white concept (furthermore, that "refusal" is what the RPI says it is) then yes, there is nothing to discuss. But don't you think that's both terribly dull and potentially...

That is perfectly possible, but nonetheless (especially) if an off-duty officer were involved I would expect them to get the passenger to calm down and listen, the RPI to issue the PF, and everyone to go on their way. I don't buy this escalation to MG11 lark in anything but the most extreme...

Liverpool St - Bethnal Green - Cambridge Heath - London Fields - Hackney Downs - Clapton - Tottenham Hale is pretty grim (as, indeed, are the nearby branches to Enfield Town and through Turkey St). As a regular flyer into and out of Stansted, I'm subjected to it on a fairly regular basis. :(

Either of the two old Eurostar routes out of Waterloo International: Vauxhall - Wandsworth Road - Clapham High St, then: Brixton - Herne Hill - West Dulwich - Sydenham Hill - Penge East - Beckenham Junction - Shortlands OR Denmark Hill - Peckham Rye - Catford - Beckenham Hill -...

Of course we only have one side of the story. Nonetheless "being awkward" is not really enough. The ticketing offence has not magically become more serious. Escalation on the basis of passenger behaviour is very shaky ground. Also, pointing out the passenger should have known is neither here...

Well yes, the question concerns how quickly this escalation happens. My suspicion (and that is all it is) is that the escalation from PF to report for prosecution happens considerably more readily than it should. The offence is either deemed to be resolvable via a PF or it isn't. Yes, before...

Wherever you end up, my advice is to have 2 or 3 alternative work-home routes that are as independently robust (mixed transport modes) as possible. ANYTHING that makes you hostage to a single transport mode going down is asking for trouble. For this reason, outer regions on the Met (for...

In my view this is one of those situation where the system tends to fall down a bit. What should happen here is that the OP should be allowed to accept a PF after a cooling-off period. What seems to happen is that, owing to a very short period of "argument" at the time, the matter is escalated...

For the millionth time: "Consistency" means either complete anarchy over ticket purchase or closing thousands of stations. Which is it?