Train checkpoints

inisboffin

Got the train down last night from Dublin, and put my rubbish in the bin before I got off. Must have tossed my ticket too. I never gave it a 2nd thought as NEVER before did I have to show a ticket to *get out* of Ceannt Station.
The guy at the station gave me major sh*t, even though I had my reservation number in my phone (booked ticket online), threatening 100 euro fine blah blah. I said I never had to do this before, and no one told me, and he said "we don't have to tell you, it's on the wall". He let me through right around the time I offered to go bring him the bin bag! A few other people had tossed their tickets too.

Now I know in the last while you have to use your ticket to exit the train (through the auto stiles that never work!) in Dublin, but often they are all open and no one checks. Is this a brand new thing in Galway, or perhaps just for the bank holiday? Security seems high all over town.

On a side note a friend who busks said he saw a ton of what he reckoned were pickpockets in town, so good to be wary.

DD67

Thats a common occurance on the morning commuter train from Athlone, some time back when i used to use the train there would be a ticket seller on the train so if you managed not to get your ticket in the station you could get one on the train. But Irish rail would pull the ticket seller on a given day and set up a check point as you experienced thus catching out people who could`nt get a ticket because the ticket seller was pulled.

I wrote a letter to the local press some time back high lighting Irish rails dirty tricks and there after the ticket seller was left in place and they began to announce on the train there would be a platform checkpoint.

inisboffin

Yes, this was the late train from Dublin. I am fairly sure they had a check/seller around Athlone, but it was for those who just got on. There was no announcement when we were
exiting, it caught a few people
out who tossed or left their tickets.
Thanks for the info, first time I'd
seen it.