How can passengers find out which trains are designated Penalty Fare trains and where compulsory ticket areas are?
The Penalty Fares rules say:
Penalty Fares publications can be extremely misleading. FGW's publications for example refer to Penalty Fares stations but these cannot be compulsory ticket areas as other train companies such as Cross Country stop at some of these stations. These must be stations where some Penalty Fares trains run to/from. So I would imagine that Penalty Fares trains are trains which stop at two so-called Penalty Fares stations, that a compulsory ticket area is a station where all trains only run to Penalty Fares stations and that FGW use the term Penalty Fares stations for simplicity or to scare customers into thinking that Penalty Fares more widely than in reality. However, I cannot find any of this explicitly stated anywhere.
The Penalty Fares rules say:
7 Circumstances in which a penalty fare may not be
charged
7.1 Operators may only charge penalty fares to people who are:
a travelling by, present on or leaving a train which is named as
a penalty fares train by an approved penalty fares scheme;
or
b present in, or leaving, a compulsory ticket area which is
named as part of an approved penalty fares scheme.
Penalty Fares publications can be extremely misleading. FGW's publications for example refer to Penalty Fares stations but these cannot be compulsory ticket areas as other train companies such as Cross Country stop at some of these stations. These must be stations where some Penalty Fares trains run to/from. So I would imagine that Penalty Fares trains are trains which stop at two so-called Penalty Fares stations, that a compulsory ticket area is a station where all trains only run to Penalty Fares stations and that FGW use the term Penalty Fares stations for simplicity or to scare customers into thinking that Penalty Fares more widely than in reality. However, I cannot find any of this explicitly stated anywhere.