Gospel Oak - Barking

Every Silverlink train on this route has a guard (or whatever else they're
called). Their sole job appears to be to open/close the doors at each
station. Do they not have any revenue/ticketing duties? A few stations on
this route have no ticket machine, and in my limited experience of travel on
this line the guard never appears to check tickets (probably due to stops
every 3-4 mins). I bet Silverlink Metro must lose a fortune in revenue on
this route. It will be interesting to see how the new operator this year
tackles the revenue side of things.

Nicola Redwood wrote:

> I've seen them checking tickets a few time from Blackhorse Rd to Upper
> Holloway and they have one of those machines to issue tickets. They don't
> seem to bother checking Oystercards for travelcard holders

Strange - everytime I've seen a ticket check (to the north west of Wanstead
Park) they've used an Oyster reader.

Mr Thant wrote:
>
> The only I've seen a ticket inspector/seller on the line, it was a
> separate person to the guard.

And all the times that I've been checked it was the guard!

In article <Wy7gi.5124$uR5.3872@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>,
Jack Taylor <Jack@Carney.co.uk> wrote:
> Mr Thant wrote:
>>
>> The only I've seen a ticket inspector/seller on the line, it was a
>> separate person to the guard.
>
> And all the times that I've been checked it was the guard!

It varies; there was a patch a month or two back when there was
always guard and a seperate ticket inspector (I assume there was
a fair evasion blitz, and that the ticket inspectors normally
worked elsewhere on the silverlink network).

These days the ticket inspectors always have oyster readers,
but they don't always use them.

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