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== General train styles and guidelines Tricks for avoiding the ticket control ==Train hopping There are different aproaches for blackriding. Some people just sit and when conductor comes give their ID and get a fine. If you are a foreigner the fine might never get you but it is not always the case. Also in Europe is generally easy as some countries don't have a good system (for example Germany) you can go to track prison for not paying train fines. This means that if So it might be wise to trick the conductors somehow and simply not get controled. Once you get into it you can have for example a Spanish passport great success with crossing whole countries without any problems. Most important is to keep in mind that each train and each situation is unique and got a fine in France, that you won't get the fine ever, except if you move need to France one day adapt and get a job etcuse different tactics accordingly.

There are different approaches '''Hiding on a toilet'''The most obvious trick is to train hopping hide on a toilet. The conductors of course know this classical trick but it's good to keep in mind that the ticket inspectors are aware of all tricks and gamesstill works surprisingly well. You can try and stay in decide if you lock the door or not. If the toilet for door is locked the whole journey but in some countries conductor can see it and trains they can unlock the toilet if they suspect might wait until you get out. If you don't have a ticket, especialy in central Europe (Czech, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary). There are toilets checked by controller often especially in long-journey trains (EC, IC, SC). You could leave lock the door unlocked they are likely to try and fool them pass you but that means every passenger would open the door other passengers might want to go to toilet as well... You can run around the train as well, trying For that reason you might want to avoid the ticket inspector which may or may not work. These techniques may get you into more trouble and are generally not pleasurable but are very important for people sit there with no ID since your pants down like if you 'd be shitting. It might be wise to just go to toilet when they are controling and then get caught and out of the ticket inspector wants to write toilet again. IF you a fine, they will ask stay for an hour on a passport and if you don't have one or refuse to give it toilet it is very likely that they call the copsmight raise suspicion.

So for people with ID, who are foreigners '''Hiding in the country, in most cases it is OK simply to find a quite place luggage compartment'''It depends on the a train, wait but often fast trains have shelves for the ticket inspector and kindly explain to them your situation (imaginary or not)luggage. In a lot of countries the law says they are obliged What you can do is to write you look for a fine (shelve which you will never have to pay as long as you give a fake address or say you don't have one) is partly filled but they may kick still offers enough space for you off. They may also threaten to call the policehide in there behind your backpack. It depends on each person how they prefer to deal with this - whether to argue or not, whether to plea or is of course not the most comfortable but just keep calm as if you get aggressive it is a valid reason to get the cops on younot too bad either. In case that a ticket inspector It is actually calls quite fine. After you hear the police without conductor walking by and asking people for tickets you can get out again and take a valid reason (no ID, being aggressive) donseat. '''Dancing around'''t panic, The finest art of blackriding is to dance around the most that conductors. There are different dance styles and you can invent your own. You can happen is they search you pretend having a phone call and/or escort you off just pass the train stationconductor while talking to a phone.Generally, when choosing which train to take, opt You might also pass them with asking for express trains - those with fewest stops, as you are unlikely a direction to get far with regional ones - and you may get stuck in a station where almost no trains stoptrain restaurant. It's very useful to memorize (or write down) If the train has two floors well the timetable, so that you instantly know which conductor is the best train to take after in one and you get kicked out of dance through the previous other one... '''Short distance ticket'''In central Europe some countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania...) - you can use jump style tat is called short distant ticket trick. Conductor conductor usually check only checks everyone in the begining and then just ask for new passengers and he do not remember their final destination. So what you can do is to buy only a cheap ticket only for short distance to one of the first stations and then stay in. They will remember that they controled you show it to conductor. But after but not what was your final destination on the a ticket you continue journey, sit and sleep. This is trick would not complete freework everywhere since in many other countries (France, but cheapGermany. More difficult jump style is similar. Blue jumpr come and he check new passengers. You are new but you do ) they control everyone not respond (sleep, look out in the begining of window, read a book)journey but at some random point during the trip.Around some big cities - like Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo - there are local trains without regular checking, only sometimes groups of inspectors '''Getting caught'''If you get caught you can try to invent a story (oh no where is my ticket? I had it right in uniforms comemy pocket. It is easy with these trains. These trains has lot of stops and trains go often (once a 10-60 (120) minutes, close or you can also just admit to Helsinki even once a 5 min, around Stockholm once a 30-120 minutes, around Oslo L trains once a 30-120 min)them that you have none.High-speed trains are good, because IF they ask you for ID you can say you have big distance between stops 50-200 km or more = (Pendolino, IC, EC, SJ SnabbTaag, TGV, Freccigarossa, Treno Italo, ICE, night trains). But ticket checking is usually harder (conductors in both sides none and most of wagon and toilet checking too - in Italian Treno Alta Velocita). Usually the time they just kick you out or they ask for IDon the next stop and you'll take the next train. Sometimes, they might want to call police or they make extra stop for the cops to get your ID. Generally some people think that when you get caught it is better to speak with conductors in small station with not so many local trains (without waiting room) or English even in fieldsif you speak their language. They might think that you are just a random hobo passing by and they are less likely to bother giving you a fine. It If it happens rarely, if that you have bad luck get a fine it is likely that it will never get to your home country since it is not so easy for conductor or them to get the money from you if you are too rudelive abroad. Often times it is like that but there is no guarantee. And sometimes they give echo Sometimes the fines actually get to conductors in next high-speed trainyou.