> spend 15 minutes writing up a ticket, and possibly waiting for the police to arrive before handing you over to them > take you to the back office and let you

> spend 15 minutes writing up a ticket, and possibly waiting for the police to arrive before handing you over to them > take you to the back office and let you sit for 5 minutes while your phone charges Your on a train. There’s no back office, and neither of you are going anywhere in a hurry while it’s moving. They just ask the police to meet them at the next station and hand you over. > Nobody is going to send you to prison for the first offence of not having a ticket Prison sentence, probably not, £200 fine and a criminal record, not unlikely. I certainly know people who have found themselves on the wrong side of a TfL ticket conductor, and then found themselves in front of a judge. Train ticket enforcement is a surprisingly disproportionate part of British law.