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    Transport for Wales Class 230

    They’re lumps of metal with some glass, plastic and upholstery so if you want to be taken seriously cut out the absurd use of words like divisive as though I’ve said something racist or homophobic. They didn’t work when Vivarail converted them. They don’t work after some other company has tried...
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    Transport for Wales Class 230

    Up to this point there is no evidence they can be sorted out. They have tried before and failed so how and why is this attempt going to succeed? The last lot they got tinkering with them were reportedly a very expensive specialist contractor, so if they couldn't knock them into shape what...
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    Transport for Wales Class 230

    I wonder exactly how much good money they are going to throw after bad to try and save face. They allegedly spent a significant sum on a specialist contractor sorting them out before they were introduced, and less than 1 year later are throwing more money at them in a vain attempt to make them...
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    Reopening Gisburn station as a parkway for West Craven and extending Clitheroe services there

    What you are suggesting is fantasy rubbish. Even in this fantasy section of the forum suggestions should really have some basis in reality and yours don't. I don't dislike Hellifield at all. It is a perfectly pleasant little village in a very nice area of the country but it is a nothing place of...
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    How could Lumo expand/develop/improve?

    Yeah, right. Lumo's main aim isn't to increase revenue and profit, it is to reduce the number of flights. How public spirited of it. So when one FG company creates a ready made market for another FG company by its actions the latter company isn't in any way going to take advantage of that...
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    How could Lumo expand/develop/improve?

    I'm sure Lumo is very interested in what Avanti does. One FirstGroup company gets money for nothing (their own words) from the government for running a completely sub par service and then another FirstGroup company steps in and takes some its disaffected customers, revenue and profit - the...
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    Reopening Gisburn station as a parkway for West Craven and extending Clitheroe services there

    An hourly electric service to Ribblehead! Seriously? Hellifield is a nothing place in the middle of nowhere but it resembles downtown Manhattan in comparison to Ribblehead. Ribblehead consists of a pub and about 8 houses.
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    Reopening Gisburn station as a parkway for West Craven and extending Clitheroe services there

    You have contradicted yourself. You can't accept the timetable won't be optimised and then say the journey time if it was optimised would be competitive. If the timetable was optimised, which it wouldn't be, the journey would be at least 1 hour. If it wasn't then the journey would be around 1...
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    Reopening Gisburn station as a parkway for West Craven and extending Clitheroe services there

    The connection could be improved but won't. The % of Clitheroe's passengers to/from Preston is around 2%. Gisburn - Preston obviously wouldn't be 45 minutes, or anywhere near it, even if the connections were improved and reopening a station in some small, remote village isn't a good reason to...
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    Reopening Gisburn station as a parkway for West Craven and extending Clitheroe services there

    Journey planners show Clitheroe - Preston as a 1 hour 15 minute journey by rail so how is Gisburn to Preston going to take 45 minutes?
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    Being charged under byelaw 18.2 by merseyrail

    The OP states they have already used that argument with Merseyrail and all it has got them is a day in court. It is for the court to decide whether 18.3 applies in this case or not. If the OP pleads not guilty and posts the outcome on here we will have an unambiguous answer to the question as...
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    Being charged under byelaw 18.2 by merseyrail

    Your understanding of Byelaw 18.3 is correct but I’m not convinced it still applies after you have arrived at your destination if that has an open ticket office but you still don’t buy a ticket. Others disagree. To prevent a repeat of the same argument you might like to read this thread which...
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    Ticket confiscated and told to expect a court date

    At least one of those facts appears to directly contradict what a solicitor who specialises in fare evasion said. The OP made the initial approach to a solicitor without any prompting from anybody and it is perfectly reasonable to advise people who have consulted a solicitor to follow the advice...
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    Ticket confiscated and told to expect a court date

    The number of times you have done it a fraud charge is a possibility. It might not be the most likely outcome but it is a possibility depending on how much Chiltern know so whether you wish to be proactive or reactive largely depends on whether you consider the money more important or the...
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    Ticket confiscated and told to expect a court date

    You can listen to some of the people on here who are telling you what they think you want to hear or you can look at the facts and make a decision for yourself. The facts are Chiltern's actions were very unusual, verging on the bizarre. That says to me they have something on you. Nobody knows...
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    Ticket confiscated and told to expect a court date

    It doesn’t seem enough to confiscate somebody’s ticket either which is why I suggested they have been targeted because Chiltern already know who they are, what they have been doing and, now they have a return portion of a ticket they used that morning, they have some evidence as well.
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    Ticket confiscated and told to expect a court date

    It does sound strange. It sounds like they know who you are, what you have been up to and it was targeted, especially when you say you have been purchasing tickets at your local station for journeys from a different station and they have been happy to sell them to you.
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    TfL Procedural Error?

    I think you need to be realistic here. If you were caught using your brother's Oyster card and TfL have decided to prosecute there is very little to no chance of you avoiding getting a criminal record. If you were caught in the act then whether you plead guilt or not guilty you will almost...
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    School buses to be switched to trains

    How is that a problem? They are kids and there is supposedly a child obesity crisis. Walking for up to 20 minutes isn’t going to do them any harm and will probably do them some good.
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    Help Chiltern court summuns

    The only way that letter could be described as confusing is if you are deliberately trying to be confused. It is straightforward - choice 1, get prosecuted for the offence you've been stopped for or choice 2, avoid prosecution but pay everything you've avoided.

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