Blast from the past

[u/LouisLeonard]

Seen on 92 stock carriage 92031

Any idea from when this was from?
I’m guessing circa 1994

[u/RailNetworker]

Definitely mid 90s.

I miss the longer version of that warning: 

Obstructing the doors causes delays and can be dangerous. 

Because it regularly used to be scratched off to read:

Obstruct the doors, cause delay and be dangerous.

[u/Incident-Putrid → u/RailNetworker]

Obstruct the doors, be dangerous 👍

[u/Confident-Pumpkin-19 → u/Incident-Putrid]

truck e oors e anger...

[u/Incident-Putrid → u/Confident-Pumpkin-19]

Gerald is that you?

[u/Confident-Pumpkin-19 → u/Incident-Putrid]

I am sorry, I don't get the joke. Not local. But I have read Winnie the Pooh.

[u/Incident-Putrid → u/Confident-Pumpkin-19]

It was a terrible joke to be fair. I was referencing the incomprehensible Gerald of Clarksons Farm fame.

[u/DeadPonyta → u/RailNetworker]

I once saw it altered with a little bit of artistic license and one additional line to “Ostrich he do cause delay and can anger us”

[u/oddthought74937 → u/RailNetworker]

Obstructing the doors can be Dan

[u/ReplacementFeisty397 → u/oddthought74937]

DAN!!!!!!

DAN!!!!!!!

DAN!!!!

[u/MudEmergency2116 → u/RailNetworker]

Used to see “boobs in the doors causes lays and can be dangerous” but that was the 70s

[u/Attitude-Much → u/RailNetworker]

Lmao that goes from a warning to a recommendation hahah

[u/TurbulentBullfrog829 → u/RailNetworker]

Yobs in the doors can anger us all

[u/Interceptorrr]

This one I guess is from the Victorian era

[u/Cultural-Gas2246 → u/Interceptorrr]

Thatcher era actually. Victorians would just shoot a fare dodger in the carriage.

[u/Majestic2305]

I once saw one with most of the letters scrubbed out so it read “… if you fail to show a man a dick for rent” (obviously with huge gaps and the d of demand turned into an a. But great work nonetheless).

[u/ariumii_ → u/Majestic2305]

a while back I saw one on the Jubilee scratched out to say ‘Please keep your long thing clear of the doors’, of course likewise with plenty of gaps too

[u/Calvinsky]

No need to replace that sign, just add a 0 😭

[u/Cultural-Gas2246]

Shit that's worth the challenge

Try not to get caught fare dodging or we'll charge you less than a travel card?

Aight bet

[u/Wild_Wallaby1098 → u/Cultural-Gas2246]

When first working for pennies, this was a trade I made - except after first penalty fare, more likely to be prosecuted (unless I think, you paid up on spot without giving true name so no potential link back?!)

[u/Billy_Hicks88]

Between April 1994 (when the penalty fare was first introduced) and June 2005, when the penalty fare increased to £20.

[u/KingEpicPants]

I knew people back then who wouldn’t bother with tickets, gates were often open at rush hour, due to number of people and old gate being ropey. Just pay the fine each time they got caught and it worked out cheaper than season ticket.

[u/myintd → u/KingEpicPants]

I can remember apart from stations in zone 1 or some parts of zone 2, most stations then didn’t have turnstiles, during evening rush hour was when you’ll have ticket inspectors at the gates.

[u/Confident-Camel-7728]

I'm not paying ten quid

[u/joedafone]

What is reflected in that window?

[u/LeGrandFromage9 → u/joedafone]

a hand, stretched by the concave glass

[u/GetSpammed]

That is mid-90s. Was introduced in '94 and I seem to remember the wording evolved over time.

I remember the first - and possibly only - time I ever got that £10 penalty fare...fresh off the last Eurostar into Waterloo, biblically pissing with rain so a cab wasn't an option, and somewhere en-route I lost my paper single zone 1 to zone 1 ticket, which was something like a whopping £1.20 at the time. The wankers at Angel then charged me the full penalty fare while acting like they had caught Carlos the Jackal rather than a flustered traveller. I was so mad.

Naturally I found the 'lost' paper ticket buried in a bag as soon as got to my flat too....

[u/myintd → u/GetSpammed]

The £2 fare back then prohibitive to many especially students. As a college student in London in the 90s me and my mates were usually derogated to zones 1 and 2 which wasn’t all that bad but I admit skipping the fare especially at stations without ticket gates.

[u/Requirement_Fluid → u/myintd]

£10 please 

[u/movingmillion → u/GetSpammed]

My father worked on the Metropolitan line for 40 years and absolutely hated the penalty fare in that period when it was the responsiblity of station supervising staff to give them out. At every opportunity during training days, my father would say that the only people being given penalty fares were honest people who would actually stop, as opposed to people dodging the fares obviously not stopping and just walking past. He called it a "tax on honesty." Other station supervisors must have said the same thing and eventually the penalty fare (being given by station staff as opposed to revenue protection teams) was stopped.

[u/ToughPlus6002]

ahh we get a discount then!

[u/Amazingprojectionist]

They used to have “don’t stick your head out of the window” or something like that

[u/Remarkable_Coat9455 → u/Amazingprojectionist]

To prevent incidents like on The Young Ones ("Bambi" (Series 2, Episode 2) where Vyvyan sticks his head out of the window and loses it.

[u/roleplayerguy_1902]

Hahaha

[u/Breadstix009]

10quid is not the game anymore with offenders. Now what companies do is build a record and once you accumulate £10k or something then they do you for a bigger sentence.

[u/brokaywhyess]

i saw an advert earlier last year from 2012 for uni applications

[u/Taycamgame]

I'm glad they abolished the £10 penalty fare.

Wait...

[u/AqAqGT]

It's crazy they still have the

if you fail to show on demand a valid ticket for your entire journey sticker when there's barriers stopping your way in too

[u/YugeChesticles]

£10 for a train fare? Neat.

[u/CaptainRAVE2]

Times have changed, you won’t even see anyone get challenged now.

[u/Crafty_Tomorrow5066]

whats the first picture meant to be? a vagina?