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    SWR EMAIL FOR EXPIRED RAILCARD NEED HELP FOR RESPONSE?

    SWR will want to recover money owed. People lying when first stopped isn’t uncommon and won’t be a factor in offering you a settlement. What you do next is important. Send them a short concise apologetic message, provide them with any railcards you held. They’ve already obtained your ticket...
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    South western railway - railcard dispute

    Was your ticket physical or an E ticket? It sounds as if they’ve audited your account and there is nothing to investigate further. It’s just whether they come back with an admin charge (£120) plus an anytime single ticket price for that journey.
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    Urgent Help Needed with Paying a Southwestern Rail Penalty Notice

    Have you tried to appeal the penalty fare? Doing so will pause the clock and hopefully you’ll receive a response which helps you pay it? https://www.penaltyservices.co.uk/faq/
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    Advice on Potential Prosecution for Fare Evasion! Please Help

    I’m guessing they’ve looked at all your short tickets and not a single one was scanned for entry at Vauxhall which obviously meant you came from further. They can also check the gateline compliance on those dates you supposedly came from Vauxhall and they will prove the gates were in operation...
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    Falsely used 16-25 railcard. investigated letter received.

    ‘ which I can’t ’ is this because you didn’t actually own one to begin with? The best advice would be to calculate each one of those 90 journeys ( lots are probably the same commute ) as an anytime single price. The tickets you bought won’t be taken into consideration. Personally i wouldn’t...
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    Expired Railcards

    ‘ If you gave us your email address when you first purchased your Railcard, we’ll send you a reminder to let you know your Railcard is about to expire’ Her rail card is digital so very likely she received an alert. When mine was due to expire I received one.
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    Expired Railcards

    Your daughter would have received an email alerting her to the rail card soon to be expiring. Anyone can use rail cards. you don’t need to prove you have one to buy tickets ( online or at tvm’s ) Your daughter probably has it selected in her filters when purchasing tickets. As for how they...
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    Rail Operator 2 SWR

    Firstly congratulations on the role and for sharing the process. What sort of maths question came up? It's probably the only thing I'd need to touch up on. Cheers
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    Rail Operator 2 SWR

    Firstly I apologise if this has been spoken to death about. I've got an assessment for the role coming up. Can anyone shed any light on what to expect. Or if anyone has any experience. Much appreciate it.
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    SWR Guards training 16th of March

    Hey, congrats! I've infact got to attend the assessment for the same role. If you have any advice I'd greatly appreciate it bro.

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