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# Passengers travelling on trains without tickets to face higher penalty fares
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/passengers-travelling-on-trains-without-tickets-to-face-higher-penalty-fares/
- Published: 2023-01-18T08:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-18T08:11:15.000Z
- Description: Passengers travelling on trains without tickets will face higher penalties from next week.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Transport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:07, News

Passengers travelling on trains without tickets will face higher penalties from next week.

The new penalty fare will increase to a minimum of £100 – reduced to £50 if paid within 21 days – plus the price of a full single fare from Monday (23rd January).

It will replace the current fines of either £20 or twice the full single fare to the next station.

Annamarie Izzard, head of revenue protection at London Northwestern Railway and West Midlands Railway, said:

> “Every year around £240million of revenue nationally is lost to the railway through fare evasion, taking money away from vital improvements to the network and ultimately costing the taxpayer.  
>  
> “The vast majority of our passengers already do the right thing and buy their ticket before travelling but I hope these changes will encourage more people to think twice about ticketless travel.”  
>  
> Annamarie Izzard

The national penalty fare will apply if passengers:

- Travel without a valid ticket.
- Can’t show an appropriate railcard for a discounted ticket.
- Travel in first class with a standard class ticket.
- Travel on a child ticket but are aged over 16.
- Travel beyond the destination on their ticket.