Recent content by MamTor

Thanks for your comments. Some were very useful. It seems disproportionate, but I'm going to pay the £83, as unfortunately the cost, time and risks of other routes are potentially high. For those of you who asked, my ticket was a return from London, which I bought from a machine at...

Thank you - that's very clear and useful advice. Agreed that the simplest thing is to pay the £80, though the idea of 2 cheques is certainly worth considering. As other posters have noted, fighting this would be costly, time-consuming and not necessarily successful. It's saddening though...

It was in the morning. The ticket office at Burnage was open, and if there was a guard on the train to Piccadilly, he didn't come round. I didn't realise that I should've extended/excessed the ticket.

Hi, I was travelling from a suburban Manchester station (Burnage) to London with a Manchester Stns to London ticket. Changing trains at Manchester Piccadilly from the local Northern Rail service to the London-bound Virgin train, I showed when asked my ticket to a Northern Rail revenue...