Morning all,
I was travelling to work yesterday into Newcastle when I received a penalty fare notice from the ticket inspect for purchasing my ticket after departure. What actually happened, and what I have stated in my appeal, is that I got into Durham station and saw the train before the one I wanted to board (A Transpennine Express) was delayed by a few minutes so deceided to take it instead, and purchased an off-peak single while waiting in the queue outside the train doors.
My ground for appeal was that the penalty fare was issued contrary to regulation 5(1) Railway (Penalty Fares) Regulations 2018 whereby the only basis on which a penalty fare may be issued is for failing to comply with regulation 4, i.e., not showing a valid ticket when requested by a collector.
Does anyone have any knowledge of whether purchasing after departure actually does invalidate an off-peak single and whether it states so anywhere? Also any advice on what extra information I could include in my appeal to strengthen it would be great.
Many thanks
I was travelling to work yesterday into Newcastle when I received a penalty fare notice from the ticket inspect for purchasing my ticket after departure. What actually happened, and what I have stated in my appeal, is that I got into Durham station and saw the train before the one I wanted to board (A Transpennine Express) was delayed by a few minutes so deceided to take it instead, and purchased an off-peak single while waiting in the queue outside the train doors.
My ground for appeal was that the penalty fare was issued contrary to regulation 5(1) Railway (Penalty Fares) Regulations 2018 whereby the only basis on which a penalty fare may be issued is for failing to comply with regulation 4, i.e., not showing a valid ticket when requested by a collector.
Does anyone have any knowledge of whether purchasing after departure actually does invalidate an off-peak single and whether it states so anywhere? Also any advice on what extra information I could include in my appeal to strengthen it would be great.
Many thanks