Scotrail have issued their biggest ever bill for unpaid tickets to date after an Edinburgh fare-dodger spent 53 days avoiding paying for travel.
The Scotrail team at Edinburgh Waverley were alerted to the misuse of the Ticket On Departure option from a ticket machine at Bellshill for journeys between Haymarket, Slateford and Curriehill into Edinburgh.
The offender would buy a ticket between one of the locations into Edinburgh but instead would collect it and board at Bellshill so they could get through the barrier at Edinburgh Waverley at a fraction of the cost.
Ticket on departure means you can collect your tickets at the station, either from a Ticket Vending Machine (TVM) or from the booking office.
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CCTV footage highlighted a customer’s fraudulent behaviour by boarding at Bellshill over 53 days, they had to pay £3142.90, the largest bill to date.
As ticket conductors return to Scotrail's trains following national lockdown easing, the train company is "putting a stop to fare evasion on Scotland’s Railway with spot checks and penalties for offenders."
