What is the "Farringdon trick"?

[Egg Centric]

What is/was the "Farringdon Trick"?

 

[dodecahedron67]

What is/was the "Farringdon Trick"?

I would imagine it accounts to travelling from Station X to Farringdon without a ticket, tapping in on the Oyster card readers inside the gateline and then tapping out immediately at the barriers, or travelling one stop on the tube/crossrail to only pay a fraction of what you should

 

[Egg Centric]

I would imagine it accounts to travelling from Station X to Farringdon without a ticket, tapping in on the Oyster card readers inside the gateline and then tapping out immediately at the barriers, or travelling one stop on the tube/crossrail to only pay a fraction of what you should

Amazing anyone got caught with such a genius "trick"!

 

[styles]

What is/was the "Farringdon Trick"?

Buy a ticket from your starting station to somewhere between your starting station and Farringdon. This lets you through the barrier at your starting station and means you have a ticket to show a guard/revenue protection.

Actually alight at Farringdon, tap onto an Oyster card reader and take the Tube to your destination.

There's no gate line between the two sets of platforms.

Saves a ton of money, but then any 'good' fare evasion 'trick' does.. until you get caught.

 

[WesternLancer]

Buy a ticket from your starting station to somewhere between your starting station and Farringdon. This lets you through the barrier at your starting station and means you have a ticket to show a guard/revenue protection.

Actually alight at Farringdon, tap onto an Oyster card reader and take the Tube to your destination.

There's no gate line between the two sets of platforms.

Saves a ton of money, but then any 'good' fare evasion 'trick' does.. until you get caught.

Is there a reason not to have a gate line between the two sets of platforms?

 

[styles]

Is there a reason not to have a gate line between the two sets of platforms?

Practicalities really - huge volume of passenger interchanges combined with not much space.

 

[swt_passenger]

Is there a reason not to have a gate line between the two sets of platforms?

Not enough space really.

Always seems to me they already had a well known back door for fare dodging Oyster users changing from Thameslink at a fairly space constrained 4 platform station with its common island platform, ie LU/Thameslink back to back. So you probably realistically need 3 separated sets of platforms to cover all possibilities...

 

[AlterEgo]

Amazing anyone got caught with such a genius "trick"!

It’s the most obvious trick. Very low hanging fruit for train companies, everyone’s at it and very many of them get caught in the end. People think they’ve stumbled on a great wheeze, except it’s a wheeze thousands of others have also figured out.

 

[tsaebadizat]

It’s the most obvious trick. Very low hanging fruit for train companies, everyone’s at it and very many of them get caught in the end. People think they’ve stumbled on a great wheeze, except it’s a wheeze thousands of others have also figured out.

Yep! I own my naivety and never really considered the role I was playing in defrauding the rail industry. A useless idiot. I Take full responsibility with every intention of paying every penny back (and any further fines/costs) and just hope that GTR will accept my cooperation and settle out of court.