Recent content by Eca99mab

It's funny how train companies won't let you do this yet they can cancel / delay / remove reservations etc whenever they feel like it. And to think you are supposedly the customer. Presumably East Coast? I travel with them nearly every day and they seem to let everyone off for not...

So if we take the TOC's line then I should have battled through a train full of passengers to find the guard regardless of how impractical iAd it was my first opportunity to purchase a ticket. Or as I have a smartphone is the first opportunity to buy a ticket from one of the ticket selling...

Where do you draw the line with regard to passing a ticket purchasing opportunity? In theory I could have forced my way through a train full of passengers in order to find the guard to purchase a ticket or I could have alighted further down the line the buy a ticket at a the first station...

Platform 9 I think - walked over the bridge and straight through the barriers.

I have double gated on occasions before and have been stopped twice for my ticket. In fact this is a common occurrence at Leeds. I normally have a ticket so the ticket inspector asks to see it and I go on my way. On neither occasion have I been reprimanded for doing it. Hence this is the...

http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/SME/html/NRE_LDS/plan.html?rtnloc=LDS I don't think it is that obvious as I always come in on platform 6 or 8. It's obvious now I know it's there!! When I was stopped I immediately said I was going to the ticket office to buy a ticket. I asked to buy one there...

I also forgot to mention the ticket barriers are not after the excess fares window at Leeds station. They are completely put of way unless you use platforms 1 2 or 3. I did not walk past them - I did not deviate from my path because a) I didn't realise it was there and b) I walk past the main...

All, Many thanks for your advice and speedy replies. In response to a few points raised above: 1) I had no idea double gating was an offence under the byelaws. Thank you for pointing this out. 2) The excess fares office as you call it is ticked away in a corner at Leeds station. To...

Hi all - This is my first post and I would like some thoughts / comments in respect of my encounter with a RPO. One morning I travelled in to Leeds from an unmanned station with no ticket machine. The train was packed (standing room only) so, although looking, there was no feasible way I...