On 7 Sep, 13:54, Mizter T wrote:
On Sep 7, 1:13*pm, Roy Badami wrote:





On 07/09/10 12:16, Mizter T wrote:

On Sep 7, 11:43 am, Roy *wrote:
Are you suggesting that RP staff are currently ignoring the situation of
a travelcard outside of the paid for zones when they encounter it on a
NR train?

Yes (so long as the card was touched-in).

Interesting, but I'm just not comfortable relying on it. *If it were
just the risk of a PF that might be one thing, but there's always the
risk that they might prosecute. *e.g.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...-court-case-ov...

And just reading the comments to that article, we see a young woman
saying she's being prosecuted for getting off a SWT train early on a
Megatrain ticket, which rather ties in with another thread on uk.r.

Well, I suppose we don't know the particular circumstances of that
event, though I'd guess that she got off at Clapham Junction rather
than Waterloo (and of course it only presents her side of the story).
I wonder if the lack of a physical orange bordered ticket (a Megatrain
'ticket' need be nothing more than a booking reference number) might
have made the RPIs rather more circumspect, perhaps suspecting that
this was just a case of ticketless travel?

However in the case of OEPs I find it really rather hard to imagine a
TOC would actually attempt a prosecution, and if they did I think the
case would fall apart very quickly. IANAL etc.

As I said before, I haven't yet come across any suggestion that PFs
are actually being issued in these scenarios, let alone any talk of
prosecutions. I'll keep my ears and eyes open to it though.

Jeez, that had me going. I thought for a minute there was a whole new
thread on OEPs with 36 posts already.

Anyway, just thougth I'd remind about the posters in SET trains which
don't mention OEPs or travelcards at all when encouraging people to
use Oyster. They talk about "use your Oyster card on our Greater
London Metro trains" or something similar.