On 10 Jan, 10:12, Michael Hoffman wrote:
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.

Except to catch this kind of thing.

You think SWT employ dedicated security patrols to stop people not-
actually-breaking-the-law by doing dubious things with Megatrain
tickets? You're having a laugh, right...?

(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.

He doesn't have a valid ticket London-Woking. It just won't be possible
to prove that until after-the-fact.

The only thing that the Megatrain T&Cs say [http://www.megatrain.com/
uk/help/smallprint.php] is:

"Bookings are only valid on the journey(s) and places stated."

I wouldn't envy the lawyer whose brief was to show, based on that
wording, that our man was travelling without a valid ticket between
London and Woking. Even on a balance of probabilities, never mind
reasonable doubt...

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