Yes. A ticket must be shown on request to any authorised member of staff at any time until you leave railway property at the destination.
Quite a good trick for catching out illegitimate use of child fares is "Well, you're on a child ticket and you're buying alcohol. One of those two things is illegal. Which one is it? Would you like to buy an adult ticket/pay a PF now, or shall I let the Police know you've been attempting to buy alcohol underage?"
Yes but this wasn’t someone trying to fare dodge, or doing anything dodgy, (buy illicit booze) being raucous, (no failing or bellowing) it was just a simple case of tickets being shown earlier in the journey then the the trolly bloke asking ‘Can I see your ticket?’ and the return from the customer being along the lines of, ‘Why is that any of your business?, Your not the TM, you know what, forget it’Asking to see a ticket isn’t going to identify an enthusiast. It was only ever a small minority of enthusiasts who used to travel without tickets. The same people who 30 years later still boast about it as though it was some kind of achievement to be proud of.
It’s something that’s always stuck in my memory, as it just seems rather strange. Maybe a case of wrong person, wrong day?
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