Recent content by bingleybong

If it is an out of court setlement surely they can charge whatever they think people will pay though there might be redress on grounds of abuse of process if the amount were truly absurd. It seems most settlements are way below what it would cost to go to court in any case as the costs then...

Loads of times I either could not pay or paid on the way back, I've also had free rides you would not expect (memorably St Pancras to St Albans early one morning where the ticket office was shut, there were no machines back then and the guard was not a conductor who said 'you will have a free...

Maybe I'm biased but I think most of the 'it was just a couple of quid' evaders are doing it all the time. In the days when paying the guard was the norm so was not paying at all, indeed where I lived in the 90s paying for local jouneys was difficult because the guard rarely got round and there...

Exactly, basic ticket checks, gates and so on are part of the cost for everyone, RPIs, back office, prosecutors etc are only needed for the dishonest. I think the real objection here is people being allowed to pay 1000s to get out of fraud charges, not paying £150 becuse they got caught doing...

Not in my book it is a cost of dishonesty and the dishonest should contribute.

Yes that would work as would charging a PF for each of the occasions retrospective checks identified.

So evade £100s of fares, get caught once and pay £50. Even £150 seems pretty low to me.

I'm amazed just how many people are basically trying to avoid saying that they believe fare evasion is ok and should have no real consiquence if you get caught. The costs being asked seem very low to me and it is most certainly reasonable to charge for the total cost of the investigation...

Who's permission would they need? They simply bought the land and used it.

It is still at Isfield

TBH from the rail enthusiast point of view we should be glad somthing so patently absurd as the present sleepers still exists. I used (in seated) the ECML sleepers of the late 80s (I think they took them off during electrification never to return) and they were not busy and even with the first...

If they were all scanned on the OP's device then there cannot really be any doubt that the OP did this has been established.

Or the Steam Railway could make the call.

That is always going to be the case though, unless the steam railway services waits until the connections in both directions have been and gone. Is there any evidence that anyone has actually been left behind or just that trains have not stopped at an empty platform where no exit is possible?

I have to say if a guard tried that on me I would simply insist on waiting at the junction for the advertised later train. If they were stupid enough to try to force me back on the steam train they would be looking at a bill for any extra costs (and more likely me just refusing point blank)...