Re: An expensive day for some...

Charlie Hulme wrote:

there are many occasions when the railway is quite happy to let you
travel without a ticket, because providing staff would cost more than
the revenue, or because staff are unable or unwilling to carry out
their defined role.

I doubt anyone is happy when staff are incompetent, but IKWYM.

You're quite right, though. It must be an encouragement to people of a
certain disposition to try it on when they do often encounter situations
where there is nothing to stop them doing so.

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(43 062 at Crag Bank, 6 Apr 2005)
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