Legally they have a right to take your name and address
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35. Any person who is reasonably suspected of committing or attempting to commit any offence against these Bye-Laws shall give his or her name and address to any authorised person when requested to do so.
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Common sense tells you to pay before you travel, there have been and continue to be heaps of posters at stations and on trains telling you to have a ticket. It has become easier to issue a standard fare following recent legal changes in the rail safety act
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132.—(1) Every passenger of a railway undertaking shall, on request by an officer or employee of a railway undertaking, produce, and if so requested, deliver up to the officer or employee a ticket showing that his or her fare is paid and, if the fare has not been paid, shall upon request—
(a) pay, to the officer or employee—
(i) his or her fare from the place where he or she started the journey by railway, or
(ii) such other fare for non-payment of a fare as fixed by the undertaking, as the officer or employee decides, or
(b) give the officer or employee his or her name and address.
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We have discussed several cases to death here, but both where fully legitimate collars
You where on a train without a ticket you got done and I think a lot of people need to grow up