What an odd way to treat a customer. Rail Unpaid Fare Notices in the news again
17 September 2015
We’ve had a number of complaints in our postbag about how Unpaid Fair Notices are dished out on the railway. Since then we have done a lot of work in this area. Two research reports outlined the issue and some cases we saw:
https://www.transportfocus.org.uk/research/publications/ticket-to-ride-an-update
https://www.transportfocus.org.uk/research/publications/ticket-to-ride-full-report-may-2012
We have spoken at length to train companies about training, equipment and attitude. There have been improvements – we have seen these types of case drop. However, First Great Western choose to treat one customer in a very strange way. No intent to defraud the railway, no actual loss to FGW. A simple, but expensive, mistake that got heavily penalised:
What purpose was served here?
