desmondlkl
New Member
Just yesterday, I happily bought tickets to Stratford-Upon-Avon for a day trip from London Marylebone with Chiltern Railways.
I mistakenly bought a single ticket, rather than a return and didn't realize it because two tickets popped out of the machine and I thought one was for the outbound and the other was for the inbound. It turns out that the second ticket was a receipt...
So at the end of the day, I realised my mistake and was left without a return ticket back. Ticket offices were closed at SAV, so I couldn't pay the difference to get it changed to a return. I stupidly decided to take matters into my own hands and "calculated the difference" and bought a ticket back to Marylebone from Wembley Stadium... just so I had something to put into a gantry at Marylebone and also feel better about not being able to just pay the difference for a change in ticket.
I inserted the ticket into the gantry at Marylebone and expected it to open, but to my horror it didn't... Turns out I had a ticket for next Sunday instead of yesterday, only because when I went to check the difference in fares, I changed the date on the app one week ahead so that I can compare fares on a Sunday and then promptly booked it because the train was going to depart (all outbound trains to SAV from Marylebone departed, so I couldn't compare today's fare).
So I went to a ticket guard, trying to get away with what I did but panicked and fumbled terribly... I initially tried to insist that I came from Wembley Stadium, but obviously the train I came off didn't stop there and they were able to check the time the ticket was printed and the supposed location it was printed at. They said it was printed at Bicester North and stupid me thought, Bicester North it is...
So now, I've been caught paying for a shorter trip, lying about my origin station and then lying about my origin again.
I've been reading the forums and am really afraid I'll be brought to court for my offences and aggravated by the fact that I lied twice about my origin station... I obviously regret doing that and wondering what my best recourse is... Does the circumstances in which I decided to do this relevant or will I be prosecuted based on the fact that I did not have a proper return ticket? This is the first time I did this and I'm really regretting it!!!
p.s. I was a little tipsy last night and my thinking was impaired... I am feeling so guilty about everything now that I'm sober. I'm thinking of going back to the station as soon as it opens and confess what happened...
I mistakenly bought a single ticket, rather than a return and didn't realize it because two tickets popped out of the machine and I thought one was for the outbound and the other was for the inbound. It turns out that the second ticket was a receipt...
So at the end of the day, I realised my mistake and was left without a return ticket back. Ticket offices were closed at SAV, so I couldn't pay the difference to get it changed to a return. I stupidly decided to take matters into my own hands and "calculated the difference" and bought a ticket back to Marylebone from Wembley Stadium... just so I had something to put into a gantry at Marylebone and also feel better about not being able to just pay the difference for a change in ticket.
I inserted the ticket into the gantry at Marylebone and expected it to open, but to my horror it didn't... Turns out I had a ticket for next Sunday instead of yesterday, only because when I went to check the difference in fares, I changed the date on the app one week ahead so that I can compare fares on a Sunday and then promptly booked it because the train was going to depart (all outbound trains to SAV from Marylebone departed, so I couldn't compare today's fare).
So I went to a ticket guard, trying to get away with what I did but panicked and fumbled terribly... I initially tried to insist that I came from Wembley Stadium, but obviously the train I came off didn't stop there and they were able to check the time the ticket was printed and the supposed location it was printed at. They said it was printed at Bicester North and stupid me thought, Bicester North it is...
So now, I've been caught paying for a shorter trip, lying about my origin station and then lying about my origin again.
I've been reading the forums and am really afraid I'll be brought to court for my offences and aggravated by the fact that I lied twice about my origin station... I obviously regret doing that and wondering what my best recourse is... Does the circumstances in which I decided to do this relevant or will I be prosecuted based on the fact that I did not have a proper return ticket? This is the first time I did this and I'm really regretting it!!!
p.s. I was a little tipsy last night and my thinking was impaired... I am feeling so guilty about everything now that I'm sober. I'm thinking of going back to the station as soon as it opens and confess what happened...