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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    Again, thanks to everyone who has offered opinion and advice.
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    Ironically, I'd have had to have taken the bus anyway because industrial action would have prevented my return journey!
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    I might just do that, thank you najaB.
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    I was running late, but so was the train, so there was time for one attempt to buy a ticket but not two. I didn't have to queue at the machine. I certainly did intend to pay for my ticket, and I got as far as asking for it. Anyway, I have paid the Penalty Fare. I shall pop down there later...
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    The reason I feel very hard done to is simply that I joined a queue at the destination station to buy a ticket, along with a few others. Something I have done before and something I naively assumed was the right thing to do. As far as I'm aware, none of the others at the ticket desk were taken...
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    In all honesty I don't know whether the ticket office was open - after failing to get one from the machine the train arrived so I boarded. I use this train about 6-8 times a year and I bet once a year I've had to buy my ticket from the on-platform desk at the destination station with no...
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    Interesting, and thank you. In all honesty I have no idea about signage or wording - I just turned up late and tried to buy a ticket at the other end, which I have done several times in the past.
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    Hi. My defence isn't that I didn't allow sufficient time, it's that I tried to buy a ticket at the ticket office on the platform at Leeds station. This is something that I have done before, I don't know how many times but more than once. Not an eyebrow was ever raised, and in fact I thought it...
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    I tried to purchase said ticket from the ticket office within Leeds station as soon as I got off the train. The desk staff seemed perfectly willing to sell me one (as has happened in past on occasion). However this time the "official" prevented the sale taking place.
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    Hi, and thank you all for the replies. Yes, there is one machine and a staffed ticket office. I would have missed the train had I gone to the ticket office after being rejected by the machine. However, I attempted to purchase a ticket from the office within the station at Leeds and I'd got as...
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    Penalty Fare Notice given when attempting to buy a ticket

    I was running late and having attempted, but failed, to buy a ticket from the machine in a manned station (no change given "overpayment not allowed" - presumably this can be verified) I boarded the train. The conductor did not make it as far as me on the very short journey. At Leeds station, 50...

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