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« on: June 26, 2012, 08:57:25 »
nice to see FGW▸ (First Great Western) doing ticket checks on Platform 8/9 this morning. They've setup barriers to channel people towards ticket checkers.

Good flow of people and no major hold-ups, amazing to see the number of people without tickets.
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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2012, 22:16:58 »
Yeah I thought the same.. I did wonder what the barriers were for as we were pulling into Paddington although it became obvious when I saw them checking tickets..
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2012, 15:14:49 »
Quite a few BNP▸ (Barnstaple station (in the context of the railways)) as well, I mean BTP▸ (British Transport Police) as backup to the ticket checkers, the other morning.
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« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2012, 16:43:43 »
Quote from: Western Enterprise on June 27, 2012, 15:14:49
Quite a few BTP▸ (British Transport Police) as backup to the ticket checkers, the other morning.

I have edit the struck through text the quoted by me because it is unwarranted.

There are people who think it is their right not to have a valid ticket and will become very offensive to staff and it is not unheard of to become violent hence the Police.  You cannot take a stereotypical view that because someone looks like a yob they don't have a ticket and the chap in smart suit has a ticket I have seen at Waterloo some very well turned out be-suited men become very agitated because they have been caught.
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« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2012, 00:12:15 »
Thanks for your balanced observation, Electric train.  Lips sealed
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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2012, 14:32:18 »
Checks lasted one day - day after all barriers were cleared
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« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2012, 18:37:59 »
Yep.. Very disappointing..
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