Recent content by Fawkes Cat

This, I think, is the core point - including the discussion immediately above about railcards. We currently have legislation which assumes paper tickets bought face to face before travel. But that’s no longer how most tickets are sold. The rules need to fit reality. Once that’s the case, it’s a...

Welcome to the forum! Please could you say what station you were stopped at? The thing is, my understanding is that you are dealt with by the company that caught you - and some GWR trains serve stations run by other companies. In particular, some trains go to TfL stations, and TfL take a very...

On these points: - you won't be going to prison. Unless you aggravated matters a lot (assaulting railway staff - that sort of thing) the only sanction the court is allowed to impose is a fine. - the fine is based on your income (assumed to be £120 per week if it's less than that: assumed to be...

It seems to me that you probably want to avoid this matter going to court, with the risk that you will be convicted: from what you say, that could be very damaging to your career. It’s not your choice over whether it goes to court, but in our experience here you can minimise the chance by...

I appreciate that this won’t help the OP, but it’s perhaps worth clarifying that it’s not the medical Royal Colleges that are the regulators: In particular the Royal College of Nursing is a trade union in the same way that Unison is. So their job is to support their members (although as a former...

Although it is the standard letter that TfL issue.

I find checking against Real Time Trains* when submitting the claim works for me. *Other websites are available.

I don't recall this scenario ever being reported here in real life. It seems to me that what might be likely to provoke an investigation by the railway would be consistently buying tickets for a pair of journeys (for the sake of argument, out at 1000, returning at 1930) but claiming delay repay...

That’s what I infer from the wording of the email. Although I will say that I thought WMT had previously said something about ‘we have checked with Trainline’. But a quick search fails to come up with any examples of that, so maybe I am complaining about a quirk of WMT’s wording.

I've started a new thread as we've seen two or three of these today. It seems notable to me that there's no reference to WMT having checked the passenger's past tickets with Trainline etc. And all the original reports are out of time for summary prosecution. I know I apply a rather different...

A couple of points from this: If you are sharing a pay as you go Oyster or a bank card, there's nothing wrong with that, although as you have pointed out, it will make it difficult to explain what is your travel and what is your cousin's. So it would be easier if you and your cousin had a card...

Higher up the thread, OP says

I know I may be being a bit fussy, but I've done some proofreading for you to sort out some spellings and capitalisation. The main thing is that I've changed the description of the railway byelaws to something that the railway will be more familiar with.

Do you know how many journeys you made claiming the railcard discount? And how long were they (i.e. were they just in and around Birmingham, or were they long distance)? Knowing this may help us understand how keen the railway will be to pursue you. Sorry - I now see that @AlterEgo has already...

There's a number of points that could emerge from this: - for the specific incident, for most purposes if the railway is looking to prosecute they need to do so within six months. So they are now well out of time. You odn't ned to worry about this incident any more! - it's also likely that even...