Powers of arrest for nasty ticket persons expecting people to pay correct 
fare.

Regulations of Railway Act 1889.

:)

"4sub"  wrote in message
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> Powers of arrest for nasty ticket persons expecting people to pay correct
> fare.
>
> Regulations of Railway Act 1889.
>
> :)
>
>

Section 5 lest anyone should doubt your knowledge.

MJW

"M.J.Whitson"  wrote in message
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> "4sub"  wrote in message
> news:de4tr6$vca$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > Powers of arrest for nasty ticket persons expecting people to pay
correct
> > fare.
> >
> > Regulations of Railway Act 1889.
> >
> > :)
> >
> >
> Section 5 lest anyone should doubt your knowledge.


Not doubting that - though it's "Regulation of Railways", incidentally.

Jonathan

"Jonathan Morton"  wrote in 
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> "M.J.Whitson"  wrote in message
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>> "4sub"  wrote in message
>> news:de4tr6$vca$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
>> > Powers of arrest for nasty ticket persons expecting people to pay
> correct
>> > fare.
>> >
>> > Regulations of Railway Act 1889.
>> >
>> > :)
>> >
>> >
>> Section 5 lest anyone should doubt your knowledge.
>
> Not doubting that - though it's "Regulation of Railways", incidentally.
>
> Jonathan
>

Oops. LOL

In article <de52jp$e3q$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, M.J.Whitson 
 writes

>> Powers of arrest for nasty ticket persons expecting people to pay correct
>> fare.
>>
>> Regulations of Railway Act 1889.

>Section 5 lest anyone should doubt your knowledge.


Amended by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (increasing the penalty to 51 
weeks).

Incidentally, section 6 - requiring tickets to show the fare - was 
repealed by the Railways Act 1993.

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On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:58:44 +0100, in article
, "Clive D. W. Feather"
 wrote in uk.railway: 


>In article <de52jp$e3q$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, M.J.Whitson 
> writes
>>> Powers of arrest for nasty ticket persons expecting people to pay correct
>>> fare.
>>>
>>> Regulations of Railway Act 1889.
>
>>Section 5 lest anyone should doubt your knowledge.
>
>Amended by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (increasing the penalty to 51 
>weeks).
>
>Incidentally, section 6 - requiring tickets to show the fare - was 
>repealed by the Railways Act 1993.


The privatisation act. IIRC there's only two kinds of tickets now
available to the public that take advantage of that, one is a
hand-written one by a travel firm that seems to do a big trade in
tickets to East Croydon, the other are those that come with package
deals.

There's a fare on Britrail tickets or point to points issued by foreign
operators - only it's shown in some other currency. USD and EUR seem to
be the most common ones...
Cheers,
Chris Pemberton, Pendleton, Salford, Lancs.
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On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Chris Pemberton wrote:


> IIRC there's only two kinds of tickets now
> available to the public that take advantage of that, one is a
> hand-written one by a travel firm that seems to do a big trade in
> tickets to East Croydon,  [...]


The hon. Usenaut speaks in riddles.  Is there some interesting story
behind this cryptic remark?

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:41:21 +0100, in article
<Pine.WNT.4.63.0508240839430.456@ZORIN>, "Alan J. Flavell"
 wrote in uk.railway: 


>
>On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Chris Pemberton wrote:
>
>> IIRC there's only two kinds of tickets now
>> available to the public that take advantage of that, one is a
>> hand-written one by a travel firm that seems to do a big trade in
>> tickets to East Croydon,  [...]
>
>The hon. Usenaut speaks in riddles.  Is there some interesting story
>behind this cryptic remark?


No story in particular, remember that I tend to work local trains only,
so the variety of tickets (and therefore the variety of issuing bodies,)
that I see is likely going to be less than somebody who works on the
mainline all day. And for some reason or other, for one travel firm
tickets for East Croydon were the source of a roaring trade. And when
those tickets look different to the bread-and-butter ones you deal with,
these things tend to stick in the mind. I don't know, maybe the tickets
were dodgy, and they were going to somewhere else, all I know is that
there were a raft of the things until about a year ago. Now nobody seems
to go there.

It's not the greatest of places, all I know about Croydon is that
there's a tram line there and that's where my dad got a car phone fitted
at the time when car phones were pretty rare. I try and avoid the place.
Cheers,
Chris Pemberton, Pendleton, Salford, Lancs.
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speak for somebody I'll say so.

"Chris Pemberton"  wrote

>
> No story in particular, remember that I tend to work local trains only,
> so the variety of tickets (and therefore the variety of issuing bodies,)
> that I see is likely going to be less than somebody who works on the
> mainline all day. And for some reason or other, for one travel firm
> tickets for East Croydon were the source of a roaring trade. And when
> those tickets look different to the bread-and-butter ones you deal with,
> these things tend to stick in the mind.


Were these tickets issued to people who were required to visit Lunar House,
the Immigration Service office in Croydon?

Peter

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:08:40 +0000 (UTC), in article
<dektun$h4o$1@nwrdmz02.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, "Peter Masson"
 wrote in uk.railway: 


>Were these tickets issued to people who were required to visit Lunar House,
>the Immigration Service office in Croydon?


No idea, I'm a gripper, not an interrogation officer. I check tickets.
not people.

Cheers,
Chris Pemberton, Pendleton, Salford, Lancs.
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speak for somebody I'll say so.

"Clive D. W. Feather"  wrote in message
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> In article <de52jp$e3q$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk>, M.J.Whitson
>  writes
>>> Powers of arrest for nasty ticket persons expecting people to pay
>>> correct
>>> fare.
>>>
>>> Regulations of Railway Act 1889.
>
>>Section 5 lest anyone should doubt your knowledge.
>
> Amended by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (increasing the penalty to 51
> weeks).
>
> Incidentally, section 6 - requiring tickets to show the fare - was
> repealed by the Railways Act 1993.


Do you know why they brought in that change? What tickets did they have in
mind where having a printed price on them would be a problem?

Dave

Dave Liney wrote:

>
> Do you know why they brought in that change?


Probably to help with things like Oyster cards, though they aren't
technically tickets, more a kind of pass.


> What tickets did they have in
> mind where having a printed price on them would be a problem?


Pre-printed stock, I should think - which in the days of Edmondson
cards meant most of them. These days it's mainly the less common
tickets such as some zonal and Rover tickets.
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