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Originally Posted by Thomas Ralph
You could be issued a penalty fare for €151.50 or prosecuted.
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You could be, but if you get off / on at an unmanned intermediate station or if you change trains and hold a valid onward ticket for the next segment of your journey, I'd say the chances were slim to none.
You read in the UK of fines being imposed on those who get off early, but this is most likely to happen at busy mainline stations where there are ticket barriers and the passenger knows that their ticket won't work, and is therefore forced passed a ticket inspector.
In the past here in Ireland I don't think it's been an issue with on-line fares because there has always been this "max-ing" out on shorter journeys. As pointed out, it becomes a problem because the longer journey needs to compete with other forms of transport which are not necessary on the shorter journeys.