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You admitted it when stopped, so it doesn’t make any difference.

Unlike some instances where the railway may highly suspect fraud based on ticket purchasing, but might find it difficult to prove, I think here they would find it much easier, for the simple reason that there isnt anyone with that railcard that you could ask to give evidence in court that they...

It’s sometimes a few days, and sometimes up to 5 months if they are busy. (The key deadline is to get it all resolved before they have to serve court papers, which is 6 months. It’s much too early to effectively chase them now by writing to them.

If they’ve already offered the option of an administrative settlement then it would appear to be a complete waste of money if she proposes to accept that she was in the wrong. A suitably worded letter apologising and agreeing for all the instances to be taken into consideration in determining...

Worth noting that after the initial flurry of posts, the OP has gone quiet since the various offers to scan the Aztec code for purchase time, and the observation of the inconsistency in their story as to when it was purchased. Hopefully if nothing else this has given them some insight as to...

Unless her journey was very heavily delayed, in which case Delay Repay is the proper mechanism for claiming compensation, it's difficult to understand how someone would think they were entitled to a refund if they had travelled, simply because the option is available to them. And bearing in mind...

Well done for being tenacious enough to take it all the way, and very good to see that GWR caved in at the end.

If you make a statement that your treatment is “not fair” then you shouldn’t be terribly surprised if someone challenges your opinion.

Not fair? Bluntly, on the first occasion you knowingly boarded a train without a valid ticket. Regardless of the reason that's an offence. You followed it up the next day by presenting an invalid ticket. That's another offence. You said that you were unaware that your railcard had expired four...

Yes, it’s a good letter. Be prepared for them to check your account and include the previous instances as well, which based on Anytime Single fares could add up to a reasonably substantial amount.

In the very first post the OP estimates the potential number of journeys involved, so I think is well aware of that aspect of the case.

It also begs the question how you got through the gateline at Reading, as I doubt it was open and unmanned at that time. But as @skyhigh says, seeing whether the ticket was purchased before or after departure (which according to RTT was 1700 3/4) will help us assist you, and hopefully rule out...

You will probably have to budget for an Anytime Single, not an Off-Peak Single unfortunately, given Southeastern’s usual practice.

Yes, but the clock stops when you appeal in terms of the discounted penalty, so there is no need to pay until you have exhausted all three stages of the appeal process.

And it will cost you a lot more and you will have a criminal conviction, albeit a minor one. Unfortunately I think you need to take this one on the chin and pay up asap.

I’m not sure why a prosecutions office should pay for the facility of a free phone number.

To add to @island ‘s comment about expect to pay the full fare, the railway will almost certainly base its fare calculation on the Anytime Single fare for each individual journey. If your journeys included long distance ones this could be very substantially more than, say, an Advance single fare...

It irritates me every time I see it. But unfortunately I think it is here to stay, unless at some time there is a law passed that mandates correct presentation of prices in restaurants, shops etc.

We’ve had a few of these. Are we aware of any cases where someone has called their bluff, effectively said “not coming, nothing to see here” and it has been dropped?

Which bit of the rules are inconsistent, or not set out clearly? You need to have a valid railcard when travelling (not when booking, as you can book weeks in advance). And you need to travel with it and show it when asked. It’s been like that for 40 years, the only difference that these...