How To Avoid Paying A Fine To The Train Conductor
This trip I found myself telling and showing several tourists how to validate (time stamp) their train tickets in the yellow validating machines in the main areas of train stations (not on most train platforms). Most didn’t know you have to validate tickets or face fines. On one train I saw an Australian woman having to pay a light 10 Euro fine to the polite, but insistent train conductor because she hadn’t validated her ticket.
Simply insert your train ticket into the validating machine so it stamps the date and departure town on your ticket to avoid donating money to Ferrovie dello Stato.
