On 10 Jan, 02:02, Michael Hoffman wrote:
I wouldn't recommend trying this. The railways regularly manage to catch
people who do things like buy Woking-Guildford tickets when they started
at London. If you get caught in one of those stings, then they'd want to
see that you have a valid ticket London-Woking. You don't.

The railways catch people who buy Woking-Guildford tickets when they
started at London by carrying out ticket checks between London and
Woking. At which point, our man has a perfectly valid Megatrain
ticket.

That's not what I'm talking about.

Hmm. I understand the /kind/ of operations you're talking about, but
they're extremely unlikely to be relevant he SWT Portsmouth
services always have a ticket check between London and Woking, so
there's absolutely no point in carrying out the kind of raids that it /
is/ worth doing between barriered stations on OPO trains.

(in any case, the problem for the OP in this case isn't being caught
in a raid, because there is no point on the journey when he doesn't
have a valid ticket. It's just about not getting into a fight with the
chap on the barriers)

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