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    Caught walking through barriers with a friend

    Ask yourself what the deterrent to doing it again would be if all you had had to do was say sorry and then pay for the fare when you got caught. To then claim in your mitigation that it was an inadvertent accident and you didn't mean to do it and are sorry for the inconvenience of them...
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    EWR, Universal and Wixams

    If the traffic is backing up to Bedford then Universal has failed. They will want people out of their cars, into the park and spending money as quickly as possible.
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    Penalty fare disability. OCD

    I think that can be filed in the same category as Merseyrail's "all tickets must be printed out" as they also say they accept the PDF versions of E-Tickets which are effectively a screenshot.
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    Penalty fare disability. OCD

    I think in this case, you might have been better to let him call the BTP. Based on what you have said they are far more likely to have sided with you and told the RPI to leave you alone than arresting you, but I realise that you may not have wanted to pursue this avenue. You absolutely need to...
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    EWR, Universal and Wixams

    Indeed - with the timescales being talked about, Leicester may also be fully wired, opening the option of a split Leicester / Corby service.
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    Euston overcrowding at TfL/LU entrance caused by new Network Rail departure boards

    Likewise, if these are actually causing you issues, then complain with details. Many advertising sites have restrictions on what content can be displayed - the best example is that only static images are allowed on most roadside advertising screens aimed at drivers - there is no reason why...
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    Euston overcrowding at TfL/LU entrance caused by new Network Rail departure boards

    In case people are unaware, LED screens can have their brightness significantly adjusted, from just visible in a dark room all the way up to readable in direct sunlight. The brightness of a screen in a particular location is by choice, not a side effect of the choice of display technology. If...
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    GB News

    It doesn't say Sky News, it says Sky - the whole group. Since Sky do all the advertising sales on the channel, advertising their own products is a cheap way of filling the slots if nobody else will take them - and I suspect you'll be seeing a lot more Sky Sports offers and Sky Bet adverts than...
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    EMR MML services on Sundays too crowded - what should be done?

    No, I mean the company who continue to tell us everything is great and is going to be getting amazing any time soon, who would rather spend a shed load of money on a mascot they never use in their advertising than making sure the seats all have covers. I have no problem with the front line...
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    EMR MML services on Sundays too crowded - what should be done?

    They are very much in a situation of their own making. They knew they needed more stock when they got rid of the HST's. They knew they needed more stock when they got rid of the 180's. They know they need more stock when they get the 810's. And they know there will be less seats on the 810 fleet...
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    Collecting footage for YouTube

    Is this one of the 360 degree cameras you use on the end of a stick?
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    Successful prosecution after penalty fare?

    It does seem that the majority of cases posted about on this site are from people going "I've had this letter, I've not done anything wrong, but how do I get an out-of-court settlement rather than a conviction". To me that would suggest that the railway is actually being pretty good at detecting...
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    Passport Rules

    I think you'll find this can't possibly be true. Many many people have told us that within the EU countries are powerless to stop or inspect people or vehicles passing borders. They must have broken down and some helpful French border officials who happened to be passing had offered to help out...
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    EWR, Universal and Wixams

    It would simply be crazy to try and build a station at this point which is suitable for use by the theme park. There's no guarantee that the park will ever get built, or that the design won't mean a station built now isn't at completely the wrong location. It's a project, which if it goes...
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    New Mills Central landslip - 6 week closure

    Is there any suggestion that Network Rail didn't know about the issue?
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    Ticket machines: Why has QWERTY been abandoned?

    And 0% will know whether it is on the left, right or in the middle of the screen so they can poke it with a finger - which is far more important than knowing the sequence it belongs to.
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    Ticket machines: Why has QWERTY been abandoned?

    Your assumptions fail, because you're equating that changing the type of physical interface means that all previous experience is valueless for all users. You're assuming that because a small number may people have difficulty with a QWERTY layout, that all users will have issues. It's this sort...
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    Ticket machines: Why has QWERTY been abandoned?

    History shows this is unlikely to be the case. There has been significant amounts of design and engineering put into modern software keyboards to make them quick and easy to use. Unfortunately most touchscreen kiosks I've ever used seem to have not only ignored that research, but decided to make...
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    Requisition to attend court

    It is extremely rare for TfL to offer an out-of-court settlement for any type of offence involving using an Oyster card that you are not entitled to use, they take these types of cases very seriously. If they have already progressed to the requisition stage, you can be pretty sure they are not...
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    Passport Rules

    It should be noted this isn't a Brexit thing with the EU "punishing" the UK - it's the same rules they apply to all non-EU nationals.

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