BBC News: Virgin Trains 'sorry' for Louis Smith ticket check
"Virgin Trains has apologised to Olympic gymnast Louis Smith after he claimed staff only checked the tickets of black people in his first class carriage.
Smith, who was the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing champion in 2012, tweeted about the incident on the East Coast train on Thursday evening.
He said only he and one other black passenger were asked to show their tickets.
The company apologised and said it would be investigating the incident.
Smith, who grew up in Peterborough and trained in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, documented the incident on his Twitter account as it was happening on a train from Peterborough to London King's Cross."
It should be noted that VEC trains do not begin at Peterborough and terminate at London Kings Cross, but rather pass through Peterborough having come through numerous other stations first. Most of the (white) passengers who weren't asked for their tickets after Smith joined the train would already have had them checked long before the train got to Peterborough.
"Virgin Trains has apologised to Olympic gymnast Louis Smith after he claimed staff only checked the tickets of black people in his first class carriage.
Smith, who was the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing champion in 2012, tweeted about the incident on the East Coast train on Thursday evening.
He said only he and one other black passenger were asked to show their tickets.
The company apologised and said it would be investigating the incident.
Smith, who grew up in Peterborough and trained in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, documented the incident on his Twitter account as it was happening on a train from Peterborough to London King's Cross."
It should be noted that VEC trains do not begin at Peterborough and terminate at London Kings Cross, but rather pass through Peterborough having come through numerous other stations first. Most of the (white) passengers who weren't asked for their tickets after Smith joined the train would already have had them checked long before the train got to Peterborough.
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