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Thanks a lot! Interesting information, unlikely to be of practical use in a railway prosecution context, but very interesting nonetheless.

I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if the TOC prosecution department just escalated in the absence of answers while once at the court someone used the white pages for a quick check of the address and found an obvious match. I'm speaking from a position of ignorance, but it doesn't...

Semi-hypothetical, informed by a case from another forum. Someone gets caught, possibly innocent (UPFN?), possibly a byelaw type thing at worst, your £80 out-of-court bread and butter. Then moves houses, without redirection. The prosecution department escalate things, keep contacting the old...

Well if you are genuinely interested, you could do worse than read Gabor's 'Everybody Does It!': Crime by the Public. Really good book.

I'm pretty sure there is no "fixed" ticket office, but although I have never seen it, I was told that a "mobile" ticket office is in place during the morning (blokes with avantix?) Apologies, wrong information. Never noticed the thing (never been there in the morning though).

That seems very very odd. Is it standard practice to have RPIs contact the person under investigation themselves? OP, was there anything wrong with the address you first gave?

And what proportion of the traveling public do you expect to be aware of that? (I would expect below 10%)

That sounds interesting, but is a bit cryptic, could you please elaborate?

Which applies to the "Naive, gullible ......... and poorly educated" Anyway, what was mentioned was "probability", quite different from "statistics". OT, I know, but pedantry seems positively encouraged on these board.

Absolute madness. Nowhere in that report does it mention that fare dodgers can be prosecuted, with a large cost, be it OoCS or actual fine, or of course the biggie, a criminal record. By issuing PF like that, LM are actually exacerbating the problem: the wannabe utility-maximiser at the end...

Indeed. A ticket clerk could deliberately put someone in a delicate position by sheer malice (not an attack on railway staff, just a comment on human nature, also not implying that it is what happened here). In fact, the potential for maliciously exploiting railway regulations to create...

A bit of a tangent, but you don't need to _carry_ a CC to buy online. It's enough to have the relevant information memorised (in your head or the device you are using).

All extremely useful, thanks a lot (I don't think I have ever set foot on a 175)

Brilliant, thank you.

Hello, My wife is visiting the Gladstone Library in Hawarden in early December and is confused by the travel options. AFAICT, it's either BTH-CTR, then a bus or taxi to Hawarden, or BTH-HWD. The later seems cheaper (the anytime return looks especially good value at 73.60) and...

My understanding (based on a very unscientific survey of some commuting acquaintances, and from reading offenders' original posts on this board) is that a large majority of travelers are not aware of the penalty regime, especially not of the risk of criminal record. It cannot act as a deterrent...

Thanks for the link. My understanding from similar studies/reports is that the 3.7% reflects the actual percentage of ticket checked and for instance doesn't include unknown unknowns (forged tickets, reuse of returns, etc ...). I might be wrong, but real fare evasion is likely a bit higher...

The literature on fare evasion is surprisingly sparse. Some references as starting points (there are others, often not available unless from an academic institution with relevant subscriptions). Clarke, R.V., Contre, S., Petrossian, G., 2010. Deterrence and fare evasion: Results of a natural...

OK, thanks for sharing. So, 1-2 tickets discarded for 100-150 passengers. 1% tickets discarded OK? Pretty much all the data/estimates on fare evasion I have seen are in the 1-10% range. To simplify, at max, 10% of passengers checked do not have a ticket. What proportion would claim...

Have you got data to back that up? Not a challenge, genuinely interested. If no data, what is your reasoning?