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Proper craft beer, from small brewers, attracts a premium price and goes a long way to keeping those brewers in business. Cask beer, however, has a price celing which many small brewers consider to be artificially low.
All of this shifts the blame and does not work in your favour. You are required to buy a ticket before boarding (where facilities are available to do so) and "the train arriving ... quickly" actually says you didn't give yourself time.
It wasn't the earliest opportunity, that was before you...
In my opinion, for a case where it is identity that is in dispute, the OP would not need a solicitor specialising in rail fare evasion, just a general criminal lawyer. That would keep the cost down.
I don't think this can be seen as setting any sort of precedent. However, I do note that the attachment in that post states that the OP "bought a new railcard immediately validating his journey on this day", which suggests that they were only reported for investigation of the travel history, and...
I would guess that the price of the Norwegian IPA was a bit higher.
If you're horrified by that you're fortunate to be drinking in a cheap area. £5 to £6 a pint isn't unusual across much of the country.
If the OP didn't go to Lewes they cannot claim to have been delayed in arriving there.
Did you go to London or was it just the diversion via Lewes that was abandoned?
It's not clear from your post what you actually did - "going off somewhere else" - and without this it is difficult to advise on what you may be able to claim.
As your family members will require a wheelchair space and assistance boarding and alighting, I would advise contacting GWR assisted travel as a priority. There is little point buying tickets elsewhere as this will still have to be done.