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    Greater Anglia fine/settlement offer - please help

    As you’ve been offered a settlement you should pay it. You have no valid grounds for appeal. If you fail to pay it will go to court - you will be found guilty, and will end up paying more than £115, and have a criminal record.
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    Of course, if you’re travelling in the Fort William portion then stowing luggage in the guards carriage would be problematic, as that carriage ends up in Aberdeen, not Fort William.
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    Govia Thameslink offence

    Include dates - what was the date of your response, and what was the date of their intent to prosecute letter. Include those dates on this response, to help the person at GTR understand the sequence of events.
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    Interesting journeys in Belgium and the Netherlands

    It’s not checked at most borders within the Schengen area, though I recall they were checking passports between Denmark and Sweden a few years ago. And last year I had a check on a train between Austria and Germany. I believe in some countries it’s a legal requirement to carry ID, although...
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    Notice of Intention to Prosecute - PLEASE HELP

    Definitely some use of ChatGPT / AI, especially in the first draft, as there are a few phrases that have appeared before in other threads. The second draft is much better, but I’d urge you to review and think hard about the language you’d normally use. For example, do you ever say ‘embarkation...
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    Queensway to Tooting Broadway: Where to interchange on the London underground

    The interchange at Bank from Central to Northern is step-free now, thanks to the new escalators and moving walkway.
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    European Rail Timetable business is for sale

    Once you’ve downloaded the timetable that you’ve purchased to the ERT app it can then be viewed offline. No internet connection necessary. I prefer the digital version so that I can zoom into pages, the font size of the printed version is a little too small for me.
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    TfL Oyster and Contactless app (iOS)

    It’s working ok for me. There’s been a few instances over the last few weeks where it hasn’t displayed the journey history - only displaying latest journey, but that seems to have corrected itself this weekend, with full history now possible.
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    Urgent help needed

    You say that you want to engage truthfully with them, which is good. So if the purpose of the letter is to provide GTR with the correct information then yes, you should provide your correct DOB. Otherwise they’ll still be holding the false information that you provided them when you were...
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    Misuse of freedom pass

    My thoughts - maybe a bit too long and in some cases repetitive (maybe apologising too many times), but i agree with @Pushpit that you should keep the paragraph in that gives the context, because I think it is important in this case. As you are aware TfL rarely settle out of court but there is...
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    Used my husbands gold card

    You shouldn’t assume that anything that you say to the Customer Services team will be passed on to the Fraud/Investigations team. They are completely unconnected. Similarly, you shouldn’t rely on anything that the Customer Services team tell you about these types of incidents - they won’t have...
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    Ealing Broadway Validators

    Isn’t the issue with Ealing Broadway that there are hardly any GWR trains stopping there now? Just a handful of late night / early morning services, on which Oyster / Contactless are valid as well. Regarding the point about being told you’re not allowed to tap out if you’re not going through...
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    Thameslink Intension to Prosecute Notice Received - PLS HELP

    Is a ticket from London Terminals to Chatham valid from Farringdon, when travelling via High Speed line? I’d have thought it was only valid from St Pancras, not Farringdon.
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    Tickets from London Thameslink

    Has it been established that it can? Post #2 mentions that it can on the LNER website. But I don’t see how it can be done on the app.
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    Tickets from London Thameslink

    Yes, we’ve established that already. But my question is why the LNER app won’t issue a ticket from London Thameslink, even though it can be selected as an origin station on their app.
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    Tickets from London Thameslink

    That’s what I did, and it issued a Farmington to Hitchin ticket. Whereas the ticket I was hoping for was from London Thameslink, to give the flexibility as to which station I could use.
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    Tickets from London Thameslink

    That’s exactly what I was trying - I was travelling from London to Hitchin, but wasn’t able to buy a ticket from London Thameslink, even though it was in the list of origin stations. 1711479983 Yes, when I put my brain to it this morning that was best workaround that I could think of.
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    Tickets from London Thameslink

    Tried to book a ticket yesterday on the LNER app from London Thameslink to Hitchin. Whilst I was able to select London Thameslink as the origin, when it got to the screen where I had to select a journey it was only offering times from London St Pancras, and would only offer a ticket from London...
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    Fare Evasion - Freedom Pass

    Yes, they can still prosecute. Papers were laid before the Court within six months. Date of hearing is not the relevant factor.
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    Interesting journeys in Belgium and the Netherlands

    If you want some interesting rolling stock, the ICM Koploper units are now gradually being withdrawn and scrapped in the Netherlands, but there’s still a few routes where you can find them. I was there a couple of weeks ago, and they seem to be on these routes: Den Haag CS - Enschede Rotterdam -...

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