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    Penalty Fare - Appeal

    You ve mentioned needing help to collect the ticket at the destination station, coupled with also saying not seeing the ticket office, machine or member of staff at starting station and also with having the disabled persons railcard, did your disability play any part in you not being able to...
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    Edinburgh to Glasgow via North Queensferry advice please

    I was getting myself slightly confused if starting at waverley would count on either the outward or return not sure what it would have been classed as Also seems cheaper getting off peak day return Waverley to North Queensferry then off peak single haymarket to glasgow Queen street £23.30...
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    Edinburgh to Glasgow via North Queensferry advice please

    Would that be allowed though? As you would be using part of the return portion prior to part of the outward?
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    Ticket irregularity report

    Again it's all down to how you want to proceed, as I said above, are you willing to go to court over this matter, as that's what's at risk if you decide not to pay within the 21 days, how high that risk is what's debatable and no-one can make the decision for you, a refusal to pay and the 21...
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    Ticket irregularity report

    Basically boils down to whether you are willing to risk a conviction and higher fine and hassle of attending court to argue over the potential legalities of whether the rail firm is taking you to court in the correct country
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    Ticket irregularity report

    You look to have been incredibly unlucky on two counts, you have just missed your original train at Edinburgh by 4 minutes, the 1730 departure from edinburgh was the train that left Aberdeen at 14.52 Next you actually had a ticket on the transpennine train you were caught on that was valid on...
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    Ticket irregularity report

    Looks like you had multiple tickets covering same leg of journey Could you clarify exactly what tickets were held and, you have 2 advances covering what looks like the same part of the journey and there's also mention of an anytime ticket which looks like part of a split ticket, this could have...
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    RDG response to RMT's recent "road map" proposal.

    The offer wasn't put to the membership for a full referendum on, but it was put to the branches to provide their views on and those branches had meetings where the membership had a say on it going forward. So they have had a say on it, just not in the way rdg/dft want After this the membership...
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    Thameslink said I would be investigated and could be prosecuted for having ticket from wrong station. Please help me not get criminal conviction.

    If they look at your online account are they likely to see any other tickets which are just Farringdon to St Pancras?
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    Delay Repay claims being ignored for 6+ months

    Just to clarify, you seem to say delay repay claims when no travel was possible? Could you clarify what you you mean by that?
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    How long does it take to build a train?

    As far as I know they don't just build them one complete unit at a time, there are different types of carriages, ie driving, motor, trailer etc and even they have differences, so will probably be batch built, build a number of driving units before moving on to next type of carriage etc so may...
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    Trivia: Stations more than one change from London

    You can get to London from Stranraer, Barrhill, Girvan and Maybole with 1 change but the other way round travelling from London is only possible with 2 changes
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    Northern Rail not accepting receipt as proof of fare payment on App.

    What was the ticket price paid St Helens to Piccadilly and what type of rail card does she hold? 1691709091 Also might not be what you want to hear, but northern are quite within their right not to accept a reciept as proof of a ticket being purchased in order to cancel a penalty fare, in fact...
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    Industrial action refunds

    Who advised you to catch the lner service? There's a similar situation on tonight and they are advising to use next tpe service or northern, so assuming it was same last night it may play a part who advised you to use lner instead
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    Prosecution after over travelling beyond destination shown on ticket

    If the toc looks at your purchase history online is it going to show what's called doughnutting, ie on same day just purchased the first and last bit of a journey and the middle bit missing? Just something to consider what they will see if they request your purchase history, may not apply to...

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