RAIL inspectors caught 169 people riding the Tyne and Wear Metro without tickets last month.
They have since been prosecuted through the courts and ordered to pay more a total of more than £22,795 in fines and costs.
Their names have been added to "name and shame" posters across the light rail network.
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