Buddenbrooks wrote i

Since it is criminal law they can only pass the person over to
British
Transport Police and then it is up to Crown Prosecution whether a
prosecution proceeds.

Not so, it appears that TOCS and bus companies do private prosecutions
as they have since that Regulation of Railways Act 1889 and indeed
before.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/crime/ps/s...laidcrime?page
=6

== Since legislation in 1999 a rail operator can revoke a Penalty Fare
if it is not paid and pursue the case as a criminal offence of fare
evasion.

Some operators use their in-house Private Prosecutions Unit in order to
deal with Penalty Fares, on the basis that the CPS does not have
first-hand experience of working on the railway, and that taking it
in-house avoids unnecessary delays, and gives the operator greater
control and a better chance of success.

In terms of their success rate, private prosecutions appear on the
whole to be highly effective in using the legal system to tackle fare
evasion. ==


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Mike D