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An Anytime ticket does not always mean you can travel on the railway at any time - if you're using a young person's railcard.
Customer Sam Williamson was told he could face criminal prosecution for underpaying a ticket which cost him 1.90 less than it should have done.
Cerys Piper was issued a fine of 462.80 and she now has a criminal record.
Customers say they are not made clear enough when buying tickets to begin with.
Technology for a simple ticketing system already exists but there hasn’t been enough political willpower to put it in place.
Sam Bemment says such a system might be possible under Great British Railways .
He points at London ’s contactless payment system for tickets as being a world-leading example of how a good system functions.
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