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I have no knowledge of the specific working issues here, but ultimately there comes a point with all health and safety improvements where a step change is required. I see various posters saying that Red Zone working is safe if the rules are followed. That may be right, but most safety critical...

What happens at York on a Saturday evening where there are plenty of shoppers/tourists catching trains and may well have unopened wine/spirits with them, particularly now York has a distillery and distillery shop?

It is clear that an Anytime Day Single is a valid ticket for a Sunday journey. If a passenger proffers an Anytime Single, the guard will not reply "I am sorry this isn't a valid ticket". It is therefore an applicable fare. It is also clear that a Super Off Peak Day Single is a valid ticket for...

A court may have to answer it but I am afraid the answer is inevitable which is why three levels of appeals bodies haven't really understood the OP's point. Penalty fares go back to the British Rail Penalty Fares Act 1989. Here is the House of Lords second reading on the Bill and their lordships...

Because the Anytime Single is valid for travel on a Sunday. If it wasn't, then it wouldn't count.

Yes in a sense it is. The train company cannot have a policy about the level of a penalty fare. That is set by law. The train company can only have a policy about whether to impose a penalty fare. The full single fare is not the single fare which typical passengers would pay; it is the fare...

Mod Note: Posts #1 - #10 originally in this thread. I think you have all misunderstood regulation 9(6). A Standard Anytime Day Single is valid for use on a Sunday (whereas a First Anytime Day Single is not a valid ticket in a standard class carriage...

Google will give you about 220m between the Old Hall and Moorfields exits (surface) as the crow flies and 330m between those points on a walking route via Tithebarn Street However, I am not sure this meets the OP's challenge. There must be worst stations to enter by the "wrong" entrance. The...

There seems to be some confusion here about different concepts:- You are mostly correct in that offences punishable by imprisonment are recordable. However there is a list of non-imprisonable offences that are also recordable. However, none of these offences are specific to railways. However...

From Google's distance finder you are looking at about 300 metres to Retford platform 4, 260m to Earlestown platform 5 and 175m to Woking Platform 3

In the past Central Trains' Lincoln-Birmingham services would have travelled via Burton Joyce and Burton on Trent

Wouldn't you prefer to take the 6:53 from Nottingham to Peterborough via Lincoln?