At last! Ticket inspectors finally get tough on fare dodgers: Moment hero TfL worker pushes man back into station as he tries to force his way out without paying
This is the moment a London railway fare dodger was stopped by a revenue inspector who pushed him back into the station and demanded that he paid for his travel.
Video footage showed the passenger attempting to push through a gate to get out of the terminus without tapping an Oyster or contactless card on the reader.
But the Transport for London (TfL) officer blocked him from getting through, pushing him back into the station while telling him he should have bought a ticket.
The incident at Enfield Town station in North London on the Overground’s Weaver line was filmed by a fellow passenger who uploaded it to Instagram yesterday.
It follows criticism of TfL, chaired by Mayor Sadiq Khan, that too many fare dodgers are regularly getting away with the offence. Some 400,000 journeys on a normal weekday are evaded across the network, costing TfL £200million a year in income.
It also comes after a security guard who protected a Fendi store while it was being stormed by anti-fur protesters on London’s New Bond Street was hailed a hero.
The new video begins with the inspector saying: ‘Bro, go back, I said go back, stop it, where are you going man? Stop it.’ The man replies: ‘Stop putting your hands on me.’
The inspector adds: ‘Listen to me, if you don’t have a ticket…’ – but the passenger interrupts him, saying: ‘I understand that but stop putting your hands on me, bro.’
The passenger, who is holding a plastic bag and a mobile phone in one hand, is then taken to the side of the ticket gates as two other inspectors come to help.
The passenger attempts to push through a gate at Enfield Town station in North London
The fare dodger is stopped by a revenue inspector who pushes him back into the station
The inspector says to ‘listen to me’ but the man replies: ‘Stop putting your hands on me’
The man is then taken to the side of the ticket gates as two other inspectors come to help
The clip from @Kilz_silver has already attracted 7,000 likes and 1,000 comments, with many praising the inspector for refusing to let the man through the gate.
One viewer wrote in the comments: ‘Good for him, I get sick of paying my fare when all these people think they can get it for free.’ Another said: ‘Pay, it is simple.’
A third said: ‘Pay your fare like everyone!’. But a fourth wrote: ‘Even if we support the TfL staff action, the law is not on his side, you can’t really physically stop the person.’
The video was also posted on Facebook group Your Legal Assistant, which said in the caption: ‘Man encounters TfL security final boss when he tried to bump train.’
It comes after TfL revealed last week that the number of passengers handed £100 penalty fares across the network had surged over the past year.
Penalty fares are £100, reduced to £50 if paid within 21 days. Some 69,001 of them were issued in the year to March, up 9 per cent from the previous 12 months.
TfL claimed its ongoing crackdown on fare dodging had also seen a further 21,533 cases result in reports for possible prosecution, up 19 per cent year-on-year.
The transport body said 6.9million contactless payment cards were checked over the year, which represents a 51 per cent increase.
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | End of Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| London Underground | 5.3% | 5.0% | 4.8% | 4.8% | 5.0% |
| Buses | 2.6% | 2.6% | 2.6% | 2.4% | 2.6% |
| London Overground | 3.5% | 3.2% | 3.2% | 3.1% | 3.3% |
| DLR | 4.2% | 4.0% | 4.1% | 3.8% | 4.0% |
| Elizabeth Line | 3.6% | 3.4% | 3.3% | 3.1% | 3.3% |
| Trams | 6.8% | 7.5% | 7.0% | 7.7% | 7.3% |
| TfL Total | 3.7% | 3.6% | 3.5% | 3.4% | 3.5% |
Another recent case saw a cyclist force his way through a wide gate at Hanger Lane station
TfL said it secured 14,406 convictions for fare evasion in 2025/26, which was 955 more than a year earlier.
In one recent case, a person was convicted after being found using a bank card banned by TfL because of previous breaches of its conditions of use.
They admitted 181 offences and were ordered to pay £2,131.
Last week, the Daily Mail revealed another case where a passenger forced his way through a wide-aisle gate at Hanger Lane station in West London while managing to also take his bicycle through.
It comes after Robert Jenrick highlighted fare dodging at Stratford station in London in May 2025, when he was shadow justice secretary.
The former Conservative leadership contender posted a video on social media in which he confronted people who forced their way through the barriers at Stratford.
He asked one person ‘do you think it’s alright not to pay’ and challenged another to ‘go back through the barrier and pay’. At the top of an escalator he said to one person ‘do you want to go back and pay like everybody else’?
But the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association union accused Mr Jenrick, who has since defected to Reform UK, of ‘trying to score points’ with the clip.
A TfL spokesperson told the Daily Mail: ‘Fare evasion is a criminal offence and robs Londoners of investment in safe, clean and reliable public transport.
‘By focusing our enforcement teams on locations with a high prevalence of people pushing through gates and using the latest technology to target the most prolific fare evaders across the network, the pan-TfL fare evasion rate has dropped to 3.5 per cent down from 3.9 per cent in 2022/23.
‘This builds on the work of our team of more than 500 uniformed officers already deployed across the network to deal with fare evasion and other anti-social behaviour, keeping staff and customers safe, and we’re pleased to see our officer deal with this situation in line with the training all our officers receive on managing conflict.
‘We are committed to reducing the current rate of fare evasion to 1.5 per cent by 2030/31 financial year and the strategy we now have in place will help us ensure more persistent evaders face justice.’
