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Recent content by Brissle Girl

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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    I’m not sure why they would need more piling work, and there’s no benefit to the overall number of piles on a 4 track route - it’s two for both options.
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    MML Electrification: progress updates

    I'm not an engineer, but I would have thought that a simple portal structure would be slightly more cost effective than TTC, and would also in my view be aesthetically preferable.
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    Notice of Intention to Prosecute from Thameslink

    I feel the penultimate paragraph could be abbreviated a bit with less verbiage and still get the message across that you won’t see any post until after the 22nd. Other than that, it feels about right to me.
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    Notice of Intention to Prosecute from Thameslink

    Re your penultimate paragraph any tickets you have bought online with any ticket retailer are likely to be found, but tickets bought at a station is much less likely. If other instances are identified then they will calculate the amounts due. However, it’s in your interests to do the same so...
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    Thameslink Penalty Fare - I'd be grateful for your help please!

    Surely a stronger second point is that the train actually left at 0926, ie the same time the ticket was issued?
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    PENALTY FARE NOTICE, PLEASE HELP

    That's completely irrelevant. You paid (I presume) the correct fare for journeys you undertook.
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    Request reducing the amount of payment for Pre-court settlement offer - traveling with an expired Railcard

    If GWR has not set out a schedule with each journey and the fare it is charging you then you might want to work it out yourself to satisfy yourself that it is correct. It will almost certainly be based on an Anytime Single fare for each journey, with no offset for the fare you paid. Now if...
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    Thameslink Penalty Fare - I'd be grateful for your help please!

    That’s understandable given it departed so close to its booked time. But I think that gives another reason to dispute it - the departure time was the same as the ticket was purchased.
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    Thameslink Penalty Fare - I'd be grateful for your help please!

    There is another technical appeal point, which is that the Penalty Fare notice is almost certainly non-compliant. If you can take another picture which clearly shows the wording that can be clarified. So if I've got this correct:- The ticket was valid, so the PF should not have been issued. The...
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    Used 16-17 railcard for over a year (I am over 20). I shouldn’t have. Been stopped and admitted my current & past faults.

    Re cooperation/engagement etc you’ll find plenty of example letters if you browse the Disputes board as to how to draft a good letter (and equally how not to - hint, don’t use AI). And of course simply responding in a timely manner when you are contacted is a good start - judging by how...
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    Used 16-17 railcard for over a year (I am over 20). I shouldn’t have. Been stopped and admitted my current & past faults.

    When you say you've told work and they don't understand, do you mean you have told them about being short of money, or about the fraud? Assuming they do investigate your Trainline history, the best you can probably hope for is a settlement based on the all the fares evaded, together with an...
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    How to respond to TfL fare evasion letter and likely prosecution fine

    Rest assured, she won't go to prison (or even community service), but is very likely to come away from this with a criminal record, a big fine, and a large bill for the fares avoided.
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    Lied about my details to ticket inspector, really worried and in need of some advice

    If I’ve understood your question correctly then it is TransPennine Express you need to advise of your correct details, not Trainline (who presumably already have them).
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    XC Voyager Refurbishment

    It would make more commercial sense to offer very competitively priced first class advances (in relation to the standard advance fare) on services that are booked to be a double set to increase the take-up.
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    Pending trial from Thameslink

    I guess one point is that, unless your mother had your railcard (which would be rather odd), any railcard she presented was not going to make ticket held valid. And that's even more true if the railcard on the ticket was a 26-30 one, as who lets their mother carry their phone around with them at...

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