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Phil Clark · April 13th 06, 09:01 AM posted to uk.transport.london

On 13 Apr 2006 01:44:12 -0700, wrote:

Waterloo East is a classic example; there are always squads of
inspectors in the morning peak, and never at any other time. Ditto
Feltham, where I complete my journey - inspectors in the morning and
evening peaks, but travel at any other time and the gates are wide
open.

I've used it on Saturdays a couple of times - mainly so I can use my
London Stations season ticket to get to London Bridge rather than pay
for the tube - and on both recent occasions there have been
inspectors.

One thing that occurs to me is - why don't they make different sorts
of season tickets more obviously different? If you wave something
vaguely gold coloured at them they don't tend to look closer. If mine
had RAIL ONLY stamped on it in big letters it would help ticket
checkers, you could do something similar with zonal tickets.