A school in Greater Manchester is among the top five in the north west for students caught evading rail fares. Northern Rail has put Turton High School, in Bromley Cross, Bolton, 'On Report' after a number of students were caught without a ticket.
Turton School, which is a very short walk from Bromley Cross train station, is the only school in Greater Manchester on the list, with Wilmslow High School to the south in Cheshire also on the list. Northern says it is now working with the Bolton school to urge parents to buy a heavily discounted season tickets for students.
This would be instead of giving students money for individual fares, which many may 'pocket', Northern says, and risk travelling without a ticket. Many of the journeys where kids were found to be evading fares were short and for stations without ticket barriers, with conductors often unable to do full ticket inspections.
