http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.railway/browse_thread/thread/8e55de5045c49437?hl=enPosted on ukrailway this morning. This coming after The Times highlighting
SWTs▸ clamp down. Anyone else able to report similar experiences?
The bolshy station staff at Bath have obviously got tired of selling
tickets to honest travellers from intermediate stations to Weston
Super Mare.
If the local automatic ticket machine is out of order (which they are
regularly, thanks to the braindead morons that pass for teenagers
these days), then a potential traveller cannot purchase a ticket. So,
what usually happens? We board the train and wait to buy our ticket
from the guard. If the guard does not turn up? We get off at Bath and
buy the ticket there.
Not any more. Several travellers have been told in no uncertain terms,
that if we board a train without a ticket for any reason whatsoever,
we will be counted as criminals/fare dodgers and legal action will be
taken.
I cannot think of another policy (short of physical abuse by railway
staff) that is more guaranteed to make the residents of North Somerset
take to the roads, and never travel by train ever again.
Well done
FGW▸ . You have cured your over-crowding problem.
ENDS