Recent content by MarlowDonkey

Doughnutting and short ticketing are the same thing really, short ticketing being where one of the stations doesn't have barriers. What you seem to admit to in your original post is repay fraud as you say that you were able to exit the station without the ticket being scanned and thus you could...

That's the historic division where the Waterloo to Exeter St Davids service was operated by Network South East and so the rules of the Network South East railcard were applied at the stations between them.

I don't think there have been any documented cases involving SWR, but if the debt of unpaid fares was large enough, might they contemplate a civil action for recovery? They could assert balance of probability that the person buying the suspect tickets was actually using them as well,

There are mirrors too on the Maidenhead to Marlow branch although not at Marlow. There's always two crew members running to Marlow. The Guard used to inspect tickets, but perhaps not any more as Marlow now has a ticket machine, a contactless reader and penalty fare notices. The branch is still...

I think the point is that they have evidence as to who bought the tickets, but in the absence of stopping someone, no evidence as to who used them, unless you provide it.

The OP needs to load the content of the notice with identification redacted. It isn't a fine unless issued by a Court.

What is the relevance of the purchase date and time? If they are told the expiry date and that it was in date when it should have been inspected, the purchase date would have been approximately either one year or three years earlier.

Almost all trains from the main line Paddington station are first stop at least Slough, so outside the scope of Oyster. I suppose Elizabeth Line trains do still use it from time to time, so the gates would have to accept Oyster.

One must suppose that the train left from one of the open platforms at Paddington and there was no inspection on the train.

One difference is that the money to pay for the work is being rationed by year. The other is that they aren't trying to build it across a busy operational railway.

What are in essence commuter services to Kent run on HS1 to Ashford and then continue on the existing lines. Nothing similar was ever designed or proposed for HS2. If the interchange was where it crosses EWR, would a direct Old Oak Common service to Oxford via HS1 be faster than via Reading?

Oyster is only valid as far as West Drayton, so anyone west of there would be using Contactless if they weren't using traditional tickets or buying on a phone. It's not just the main line, but also the three branches to Windsor, Marlow and Henley.

I think the OP wasn't buying any tickets at all, so would always be caught if there's a ticket inspection. Presumably there were no gates at either end of the journey.

Did you mean a penalty fare as fines are only issued by courts of law following a successful prosecution? If you buy tickets on your phone using Trainline or similar, that's fairly easy for them to track down. Failure to pay the penalty fare can result in prosecution in your absence and a...

It doesn't seem to have been followed through to Euston in particular, but at one time there was a principle introduced of having just one ToC per London main line station. That helped force the merger of Thames Trains with First Great Western out of Paddington removing a split that had existed...