Are train tickets being checked?

Redlips

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Train machine out to order at Yarm and en route to Manchester Airport and I am nearly at Leeds and no guard has been down to check.

As it stands I will get a ticket at Manchester but have train companies got rid of conductors?
 
About half the time someone will be down to check your ticket I find, maybes a little over half. Always annoys me when I've paid 60 odd quid, and I could have just bunked off paying. I'm too old and respectable now to hide in the toilets every time the ticket inspector appears.
 
Been to leeds twice from durham recently. Not once did conductor check...on outward or return journey. But at leeds you need your ticket to scan out the gates , but not always as often a few gates open....so just waltz on through
 
I bought a first class Bradford to Leeds then Leeds to boro the other day. Sat in first class with my mask on the whole way back to boro. Didn't see a passenger let alone a conductor!
 
We went from Boro to Liverpool then, after a stay, Liverpool to Edinburgh and finally back to Boro. We were only checked once on the Boro to Darlington leg.
Saying that, we had to scan our tickets in and out of Lime street and Waverly.
 
Being conductor must be the best job in the world. You don’t check tickets and have a kip in your cab.
 
Use Trainline app. If you don’t get checked don’t activate tickets and you’ll get the refund straight away.
 
I wouldnt take the risk. I was going Darlo to Kings cross and a couple on the next table were asked for their ticket. They went through the whole searching of bags and pockets act and said they had lost them. Guard said pay or he would get the police. They had to pay from Edinburgh on her credit card and it was nearly £600 😲.
We were chatting later on and the young woman admitted they were trying to get away without paying.
 
I always have a ticket. I tried to buy one from the ticket 🎫 machine was out of order. £600 is loads wow.
 
How does that activation work Ingleby?

You have your ticket on your phone and only activate it when you travel, or in this case if you don’t see the conductor, in theory you haven’t travelled and can claim a refund minus £10 admin fee, I’ve done it when I have genuinely missed trains through delayed flights and if you want to be dishonest then you could potentially avoid the conductor on a journey to do the same.
 
You have your ticket on your phone and only activate it when you travel, or in this case if you don’t see the conductor, in theory you haven’t travelled and can claim a refund minus £10 admin fee, I’ve done it when I have genuinely missed trains through delayed flights and if you want to be dishonest then you could potentially avoid the conductor on a journey to do the same.
This works as long as you don't have to scan your ticket or show it to a conductor to get through the barriers at the station you board the train - and technically, I believe it's illegal to travel without activating your ticket, so even if you manage to board, you need to be pretty sharpish activating it if you see a conductor coming during the journey. Not sure if it registers at what time you do the activation, though I'm guessing it does
 
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