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Fare dodgers cost £25m a year

A Department for Transport survey, carried out to inform bidders for the next South Western franchise, reveals that ticketless travel is costing Stagecoach‘s South West Trains nearly £25 million a year.

Ticketless travel is highest after 1900, and on suburban routes from Waterloo to Kingston and Reading/Windsor.

  • We've read it in: Passenger Transport, July 8 2016, Issue 138, p14