About 900,000 rail journeys are made each year in Scotland by people who deliberately avoid paying the fare, according to ScotRail. The train operator said its recent monitoring exercise revealed that 132 people had travelled without a ticket on 10 services they examined.
Consequently, ScotRail has started a new campaign aimed at urging customers to pay their fare before boarding. The company has also invested in ticket vending machines at 26 new sites in a bid to help customers purchase tickets in advance. It is also upgrading ticket vending machines at a further 100 sites. There are now 260 machines across the network, with 20 more to be installed by the end of the year.
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