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In olden days, when ticket collection was done by humans, the west side gate at Woodside Park was only open in rush hours. Good to know that it's now always open.
Pedant time: It's not really accurate to say none of the stations originally had ticket barriers - they did, but of a different form. For example, the C&SLR opened with turnstiles, and the Yerkes tubes had a barrier where a ticket inspector stood to (surprise, surprise) inspect your ticket as you passed. A lot of the Holden stations were build with Passimeters, which featured barriers too. Nothing is ever new.
I wish the Croxley Car Park entrance could have a reader straight onto the southbound platform. This would avoid steep up and down stair flights. For full step-free access, a wheelchair user could stay on a northbound train until Watford and then return back to the Croxley car park. Both stations are in zone 7 and it would add little extra time onto a journey.
It could even have a full sliding gate, magnetically released upon push-button request, by the station attendant who's normally in the [ticket] office.

dg writes: It'll never happen.
I guess you haven't been to Finsbury Park Station for a while dg.

dg writes: I went yesterday.

The un-gated National Rail entrance (from Station Place) also leads directly to a re-opened corridor serving the lifts to the tube platforms. Step free access as well as the spiral stairs.

There are ticket gates on some of the National Rail platforms (3/4 & 7/8) in addition to the validators in the corridor in your picture. It's frankly a mess.

dg writes: Updated, thanks.
I think technically you could exit the W&C for free at Bank but it would involve a long walk to the DLR's lift which arrives at street level ungated.
Happened to be at South Kenton yesterday while tramping the Capital Ring.
I can confirm there are just the touch in posts by the platforms -which allowed me to hunt down a member of staff to ask if there were any loos.

They directed me to the pub next door - which must be fed up with being signposted as they had a prominent notice saying Toilets for Customers only! Sigh.
Never did find one til I got home again several hours later!
I don’t know how often or how regularly it’s open, but Leyton has an (I think unbarriered) side entrance off its eastbound platform. It might be like Pinner.
From memory isn't there some gateless possibility associated with he lift at Euston Square?
No there are two lifts at Euston Square, one from the street to the ticket hall and then another beyond the gateline that goes from hall to platform.
West Finchley southbound has access via an alley between two houses in Wentworth Avenue, but it’s only open between 7.30 and 9.30 am which is not usually any use to me.

dg writes: Added, thanks.
The W&C is not as benign as you suggest - going to Bank works that way, but if you go from Bank to Waterloo and forget (or fail to notice) the need to touch out, they will ding you for £5.60. And in a further twist, that doesn't for some reason count as an incomplete journey as far as the website is concerned, so it's not possible to claim it back online.
the side entrance at Leyton eastbound is still un-barriered (new word?) but I haven't seen it open for years. The whole of that side of the station is to get a new entrance in the next few years...or sometime...so there won't be any minor changes till then.
Oval and Fulham Broadway for temporary unbarriered entrances? Match days only of course
Get yourself a RADAR key, just a couple of pounds off Amazon and you can have access to West Finchley anytime you want.
One of the lifts at Westminster takes you directly from the platform to the street, bypassing the ticket barrier in the ticket hall. I think it is the Eastbound Circle /District platform.
Every time I change trains at Finsbury Park, I get an unfinished journey on my card. I tried to touch the readers in every combination and still.
From the W&C at Bank you can get to other lines without passing a barrier via the connecting passageway which was built with the DLR Bank extension. From there you could travel to one of the other unbarriered stations! For the vast majority of users, however, this would be silly, as they want to get to Bank. And I'm not sure the ungated DLR lift is open in peak times anyway (perhaps I'm wrong).
DG you say that at Roding Valley there are around 500 passengers per day and that installing ticket gates would be "excessively expensive". But I thought about this and I *could be wrong*, but lets say 100 people a day dodge 2 journeys (one there and one back) that would be a loss to TfL of £500 (100 X £5). If you multiple that by say, 360 days then you 500 X 360 = £180,000 a year. And thats just one of these stations you mention. Now I don't know how much it costs to install ticket gates, but once they are in, I assume there can't be many maintenance costs. I assume that station would need say two shifts with four members of staff (?) being paid £40,000 per year? (i don't know the salary). That comes to £160,000. This is just speculation, and I'm happy to admit I'm wrong. But having no staff at stations has a cost surely, and that cost *could* be quite high. St. Johns in south London has no ticket gates and I'm pretty sure a lot who don't have tickets get off there rather than Lewisham for example. So, all i'm saying is no ticket gates *could* be a massive false economy?
Is Sheffield (Midland) the biggest/busiest/most significant mainline railway station not to have ticket barriers? (This may be a question for another time.)
Leyton side entrance for northbound trains is open for evening rush hour from about 1630. I see plenty of people ignore the two machines to tap.

dg writes: Added, thanks.
The ticket gates at Bromley-by-Bow have been open for most of the last five years, so I could argue it's an unbarriered station too.
The barriers at King's Cross National Rail are frequently open. With the barriers at the stations up the line frequently being open too, National Rail must be missing a lot of potential revenue. (My estimate is that the barriers are open more often than they're closed) I smell a FoI request coming along...
Leaving them open isn't quite the same as not having them at all...
Epping's Hillcrest Way entrance/exit is open from 16.00 to 20.00 Monday to Friday.

Very useful for those who live on that side of the station in peak hours.

Because trains at Epping terminate and depart from both platforms, outside these hours passengers who need that side of the station sometimes will have to cross 2 bridges; one inside the station and one nearby outside the station to end up where they need to be.

dg writes: Added, thanks.
The connection between NR and LU at Wimbledon (and probably other places) is unbarriered, and plenty of the further out NR stations are also free from barriers, so the thousands of people that travel from Ewell West to Roding Valley can get by without paying.
For Wimbledon add the Tram to the unbarriered connection so even more ways of not paying.

I think all the other tram/NR interchanges involve going through NR gates
Westbourne Park has large folding gates on the Westbound platform which I'm sure I've seen used to cope with the Notting Hill Carnival crowds exiting the station - however I've not been for several years so don't know if they're still used for that?
Leyton (central line) has a second entrance on the side. It only has oyster readers. You come out unto the street.
At my local NR station a manned barrier was introduced from the car park onto the platform, but this was also the pedestrian route to the ticket office. When asked for my ticket I said I was on my way to buy one and was allowed through. I refrained from pointing out that this made his role rather futile.
Remember that to get a free you need to be travelling between two unbarriered stations. You can also get cheaper journeys if you pass a station where you can touch-in and -out en route, or have a travelcard that at least covers the zone you want to exit the station. However ticket inspectors roam around the TfL network and they will refer you for prosecution if they notice you have repeated incomplete journeys, which might indicate travelling beyond travelcard zones without paying.

There is an easy way for the occasional traveller to evade fares even with barriers, but it would be unethical for me to spell it out.
Many tube stations have their gates left open after about 8 or 9pm at night.

The DLR is almost entirely unbarriered, and many overground stations aren't.
Grand Central has a "buy on board" policy, thus anyone claiming to be travelling on Grand Central has to be let through the barriers a King's Cross for free.

You are likely to have your ticket checked on intercity routes. LNER doesn't do penalty fares so they can either sell you a ticket, or refer you for prosecution.
Glasgow Central is the busiest station which has some platforms that can be accessed without going through barriers.

In descending order of passengers per year, then, Manchester Piccadilly has an exit without barriers, not all platforms at Edinburgh Waverley are barriered, Liverpool Lime St has an exit without barriers, Cardiff Central platform 0 is unbarriered (but occasionally manned), then comes York then Sheffield.
Not sure of the relative passenger numbers, but Paddington also has some platforms without barriers, and not just for Heathrow Express services.










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