Recent content by bemused

I'd suggest the 'policy' relies on a rubber stamping exercise and not clogging up the courts at all. If everyone turned up there would be no hope of getting through the list.

Certainly true if you are relatively new to the area and an 'occasional' rail traveller. Trust me, we know now :D

Well I pm'd 185 asking for the link as I didn't know at the time which website it was. I have since put two and two together and planned the journey from BP to King's Cross on FCC's own website. I did so for tomorrow at roughly the time of day I know my daughter was travelling.

Thank you for this 185. There's nothing at Brookman's Park to suggest anything wrong with travelling the route either but I guess you're just meant to know.

Thank you DaveNewcastle. I'm quite willing to do whatever is necessary to resolve this. I'm certainly buying her a car now so she never has to rely on buying a ticket at an unmanned station again. The potential for disaster is too great for comfort.

I think you're probably right. It's sheer coincidence she turned up at the station at just the wrong time and inadvertently travelled by the wrong route. To her it was a different route and she had no reason to suppose she wasn't legal. As I've said, you live and learn.

I don't know how many tickets she had. I do know she had once before done the same journey but got out at Hatfield to buy her ticket from the ticket office there because the machine at Brookman's Park had refused to take her card. She isn't from that area, wasn't used to travelling by train...

Can you give me the link so I can go into that please so I can see how much it would be with a railcard? She has one and certainly paid more than the cheaper fare for the more direct route. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- There has been nothing from FCC offering such an option...

I suspect it was a case of her asking the 'wrong' question - something which arises from ignorance of the system. She kept asking 'why can't I end my journey here?' and he would only answer 'because I'm not letting you'. In her mind she couldn't be 'over distance' because she thought she had a...

That's as may be but they can do so. Maybe they've had a spate of fare dodgers and are sick of it so automatically prosecute the smallest mistake. If the inspector had only been prepared to explain the mistake we wouldn't be where we are. I guess they just get sick of excuses and past...

all it says is:- That you on XX 2012 of HATFIELD; having entered a train for the purpose of travelling did not have a ticket entitling travel contrary to byelaw 18(1) of the Railway Byelaws made under Section 219 etc. etc. This I would happily do but have been given no chance to do so and...

This much we realise now. Unfortunately she has already sent the papers back to the court with a not guilty box ticked as we firmly believed until today (as I've found this forum) she had bought a valid ticket. I think this automatically now leads to the worst possible result as the courts...

I don't know and it's happened quickly - maybe they bulk process them and she's just hit the timing wrong. The inspector told her if she wanted to speak to someone higher it would have to be through head office. She said OK, gave her details and next thing she knew she was cautioned and told...

She didn't refuse to do so. She asked why and then asked to speak to a supervisor because she didn't understand what was going on. That much is recorded.

I'll have to find and try to post up the screenshot she emailed me. May take me a while. The ridiculous part of this is that she phoned her partner when on the train because she'd twisted her ankle as the train set off. He then texted and suggested she change at an earlier station and he'd...