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    Northern Rail: No ticket machine - accused of fare evasion

    You are assuming everybody knows where the ticket office is, and will always see it. It is unfair to deem someone to be fare evading if they walk past a ticket office. It may not have been seen. Walking past this place to pay is hardly evidence of fare evading at all. Its possible to not see...
  2. J

    Northern Rail: No ticket machine - accused of fare evasion

    Yes your right, taking that sentence on its own as it is, does make it sound rather stupid. Oops! I think you knew what I was getting at though. Asking questions about a different scenario. I shall edit my original post --- old post above --- --- new post below --- But how can you be...
  3. J

    Northern Rail: No ticket machine - accused of fare evasion

    The trouble in this situation is, you havent actually got anybody catching fare evaders. The staff are catching people who they think would be a fare evader. You need to be standing outside the station building to catch fare evaders. If you finish your meal at a restaurant, then go to the...
  4. J

    Northern Rail: No ticket machine - accused of fare evasion

    Or its a simple case of how you view people. Innocent until proven guilty, or guilty until proven innocent. Im pretty sure the accepted way of viewing people, is the former. Shame the same cant be said for Northern. Looking at it through the eyes of an over zealous RPI is fine, until you...
  5. J

    Northern Rail: No ticket machine - accused of fare evasion

    OK, taking it all the way to court was silly, but out of all the stories ive heard, thats about the only one which I have no argument with. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- No, if you read what she has written. She spotted the member of staff at the same time as the machine, and...
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    Northern Rail: No ticket machine - accused of fare evasion

    Question for you then. You get off the train, and cant see the ticket office. It isnt where it always used to be. You see a ticket machine and go to it, but obviously, that wasnt letting you buy the ticket from the origin station. You then spot a member of staff. What do you do? Are you honestly...
  7. J

    Accused of fare dodging...when i was trying to get a monthy season ticket

    He stated that the annoyance of having G4S hound him made him forget his wife had his wallet, and also made him forget the pin number. Hence G4S' fault for hounding him. Different people behave differently when being hounded. His was to not think about his wallet when telling her to carry on...
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    Accused of fare dodging...when i was trying to get a monthy season ticket

    Would be lovely wouldnt it. Unfortunately he couldnt because of G4S hounding him. If he was told what to do correctly, or was allowed through with no trouble, then all would have been fine.
  9. J

    Accused of fare dodging...when i was trying to get a monthy season ticket

    Did G4S explain to him nicely that he should buy a single there and then on the platform, and get it refunded later once he brought the season ticket? If we are to believe he wasnt trying to avoid paying the fare, and going by what we hear about G4S, I think its fair to assume this was not...
  10. J

    given £139.50 fare notice due to train breakdown.. Help!

    Im with Yorkie on this. The good will gesture comment got my nose up quite a bit, and it wasnt even me he wrote to! Time for a harsh, but civil letter back to him.
  11. J

    help and opinions on charge RE: privilege card

    Yes it does seem to have gone past the jealous guard stage, but id still want to check he hadnt fiddled with it himself before handing it in, so he could get her into trouble. Not saying he would, but id want to check. Better safe than sorry.
  12. J

    help and opinions on charge RE: privilege card

    This seems quite strange. Like Ferret says, nothing points to her having done anything wrong. The rules dont say you cant use pencil. Just that you cant alter, overwrite, or in any other way tamper with, the card. So if its true that she has never altered any of the dates, then what are EMT...
  13. J

    No ticket to ride?!

    Having only just come across this thread, and reading all the way through, may I say what i think of the guard who stopped him? Ah better not, its not repeatable. So what if he originally forgot to stop and get a ticket. So what if it was the barriers that reminded him. 1- He never left the...

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