{"id":726167,"date":"2026-08-03T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726167\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:58:15","slug":"south-western-railway-cracks-down-on-fare-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726167\/","title":{"rendered":"South Western Railway cracks down on fare dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A train operator says it is cracking down on fare dodgers who deliberately buy a ticket for only a small part of their journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Western Railway (SWR) said there had been widespread misuse of electronic tickets by passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The operator said it had estimated up to 95% of barcode tickets purchased for the four-minute journey between Vauxhall and London Waterloo were being used fraudulently by people who have travelled much further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said so-called short-faring or short-ticketing was putting \u00a331m of revenue at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Since June the company&#8217;s trial has identified 153 short-faring offences, compared with seven during the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tickets, which can be bought and displayed on a phone, open the barriers at London Waterloo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They are considerably cheaper than for long-distance journeys on SWR&#8217;s network, which includes Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Surrey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A train operator says it is cracking down on fare dodgers who deliberately buy a ticket for only&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}