Recent content by Bt18

Thank you cuccir, I’m sure you can tell that this has rattled me greatly and I appreciate your understanding and reassuring words.

Does anyone have any further advice as to what to do? Obviously wait for the letter from GWR, see what they have to say and then get a solicitor to help me reply to the letter. But should I be doing anything in the interim?

Okay, thank you Haywain, I did not mean to come across as snappy! This is just a very stressful situation for me and one that I never intended to get myself into!

I agree with everyone when they say that the ticket inspector is doing his job, and I will admit that I should have just bought a standard ticket rather than rushing to find the 16-25 discount and selecting the jobseekers one without knowing the difference. Until the point of questioning though...

In my previous post I explained why I answered like that, as I was trying to be honest.

When the ticket inspector asked me if it was 'fair to say that if he hadn’t stopped me then I would have travelled the route on a cheaper ticket than I qualified for' and I answered 'actually yes, that is fair to say', I answered honestly that way because I did not know that the Jobseekers...

Okay, so despite the fact that I offered there and then to pay the fare, they would still try to say that I was trying to avoid it? Sorry for all the questions

Having looked up the Regulations of Railway Act 1889, I am slightly confused as it states that "(1)Every passenger by a railway shall, on request by an officer or servant of a railway company, either produce, and if so requested deliver up, a ticket showing that his fare is paid, or pay his...

I will definitely just be buying on board/at next available opportunity!! Or steering clear of train travel as much as possible!

Yes, I do agree with you, and I can understand why he would do so, it is his job after all.Okay, thank you very much. So if I were to write the letter would you suggest just sending the above account (post #21) which details the entire journey, or condense that down to a more simple account...

In hindsight I should have just paid the full fare rather than dither around trying to use my discount and then I would have avoided all of this .

So I got to Aldermaston (which I didn't know doesn’t have ticketing facilities), I had about 5 minutes before the train I needed to catch arrived so I downloaded the Trainline app -I’m young but not a frequent rail user and I buy my tickets at the machines. I signed up and put in my details to...

Thank you so much Fawkes Cat, this has reassured me immensely. I assume I can take a cope of the letter GWR send me and a draft of what I plan to reply to the solicitors and they can advise me on whether what I have written incriminates me or not and how to go about replying to GWR?

cuccir, following your recommendation to write a letter to them, when would you suggest I do that? Seeing as they may not have the information passed on immediately is there much point in doing it now, or do you think I should send a letter regardless of that, expressing my apologies, as it will...

thank you for your advice, I would like to avoid court at all costs as I am studying a course at university that requires an enhanced DBS check and therefore do not want anything to show on that.