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I don't think they do - other posters make this assumption. But it turns out the assumption was correct.

Has the OP at any point said it was a freedom pass or anything like that? They've only said it is an oyster card. As far as I know there's no issue with using someone else's oyster card. It looks to me a bit like all that happened was a failure to tap in or out.

Maybe I am being pedantic but aren't the strongest examples the ones where previously an off-peak ticket could be bought, and now, for the same service, the cheapest ticket is some form of advance that is well above the old off-peak price? The examples given above where previously a cheap...

I'd not really realised that other operators - not just LNER - are doing this. Quota-controlling off peak fares seems to be almost as bad as what's being done in the trial. If this quota-controlling is allowed then TOCs need not bother withdrawing off-peak tickets - just reduce the quota of...

London to Leeds is not included in the current trial - so off-peak fares are still available for that journey. The off peak fare is £70.20 so the £68.20 advance you are seeing is still capped by the off peak fare. In other words, this is not an example of a fare rising due to the removal of...

I think the point is that you can no longer rely on reasonably priced tickets being available. The fact that there are some available now isn't much use to someone trying to make a decision, two days ago, about whether they have to commit in advance to traveling on a certain day/time in order to...

Well, you can relate it to the cost of travelling by other means, the most significant of which is probably private car. And cars are used on a "walk-up" basis. There are then arguments about the marginal vs "real"cost of a car journey but if you base it on something like 25p a mile then it's...

Spotted that, although if you try NRE for Clapham Junction to Peckham Rye that day, it'll show you a route changing at Battersea Park. I see that there is a RRB Reading-Guildford which would affect @Fermiboson's journey but shouldn't make it impossible.

I was curious about this and got a similar result for Saturday 11th May (different route though). This was with telling it to avoid "London(all stations)" The Saturdays before and after the 11th were fine though.

It would be good to get Moneysavingexpert.com interested in this.

Screenshot (from LNER website) below is for tomorrow. The 11.27 > 16.06 connection is Grand Central to York then change to Crosscountry to Edinburgh. Previously an off-peak would have been valid on this. It's not now because LNER prices that flow and they have withdrawn off-peak tickets. LNER...

On the main thread there were a few including me describing the scenario of visiting a seriously ill relative. That was my situation last year; it was before this trial started but if I imagine doing the same thing now, there's no doubt it would have been more stressful. I was travelling up and...

Why would it be a good thing to scrap stuff that can still be used, even if the use is a rather different one?

What do you mean?

If there were no response to the first "soft" letter, then it would just revert to the current approach. The next letter would be as the first letter currently is. I'm interested in protecting the people who (a) made no error or made a genuine error and (b) are likely to find it stressful...

It doesn't seem very difficult to me: the first letter says hello we are writing to you about x and we want to give you the opportunity to explain what happened rather than presuming you are in the wrong. It can say that if there's no response then they might have to take more formal action but...

From what I see on these forums, the first letter that is sent out often already has a threatening tone. It's easy for the TOC to press a "send" button on their system but the effect on a recipient can substantial.

Sorry to read that you had to go through all that. It must have involved quite a lot of stress, time and expense. What is so bad about this process is the totally disproportionate amount of effort the wrongly accused passenger has to expend, compared to the ease with which the TOC can trigger it...

Tulse Hill and Peckham Rye both have 4 platforms and no level access to any of them.

I wonder if the GBRf livery people know they have activated the numerologist section of the UK's rail enthusiasts.