After watching Watchdog today it puts this fraud in comparison when people are swindling ^1000's from music gig sales and the age old  phone scams, then you have things closer to home...

http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/2317900.network_rail_fraud_sisters_ordered_to_repay_money_or_face_jail/

Although small, it is still fraud but i hope the size  of the punishment matches size of the crime.
 
I also hope that the boy has learnt his lesson. From the look of him after the guard left i think he would need a new set of underwear and wouldnt do it again.



Thats the question really. If he hadn't got caught, would he have continued to use it?

Yeh it was crosscountry train. Hope that isn't classed as a swearword on a fgw forum.

So each rail company has its own department and different penalties.
 
Shows that even though Ive been a passenger on trains for over 25 years i still don't really have a clue what goes on behind the scenes. 

Yeh I agree. I don't condone what he did and I guess my view on the issue is a little bias as I was chatting to him after.

Young and stupid with a photocopier and photoshop.

^I wasn^t even offered the opportunity to buy a ticket, he just told us he was contacting the rail authorities.^

 

Does a conductor have to offer the opportunity to buy a ticket?

The other day the boy I was sitting next to pretty much had a heart attack when he was caught, but then he was actually in the wrong.

It seems to me like the best conductors use their discretion wisely but have to be very careful with what they exactly say. If not things get exaggerated and then taken the wrong way....ending up in a newspaper.

I was on my usual Reading to Bham last week and witnessed a young boy getting caught with a counterfeit 16-25 rail card. The train guard was getting really angry with him in front of everyone and did the usual name address contact phone number.

Normally i wouldn't feel sorry for him because its dodgers that make my train fare expensive! However, spending the rest of the journey with him calming him down it turned out he wasn't your usual chavy scallywag. I kinda felt a bit sorry for him that one simple mess up and he might get screwed for life

What will happen to him? I reckon a hefty fine and a criminal record but I dared not tell him that.