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Done well, that would be a significant benefit, removing a lot of potential for confusion. At the moment that might well make sense, as you're required by the regs to carry your card with you when you travel. One could imagine future scenarios where that becomes unnecessary but I suspect it'll...

Hello and welcome. You'll find expert help here. As you've noted above, your approach to paying for your travel wasn't wise, and the first thing to say is to ensure that you consistently pay for your travel properly from now on. How far back the investigation might look will depend on what...

There's a weekday departure at 0815 towards St Pancras. RTT shows it as a Kettering service, but notes that it joins at Kettering with another bound for St Pancras. A departure from St Pancras at 1835 has a portion which divides at Kettering, arriving Melton Mowbray 2017. They are the two...

This is the main thing you can do in terms of preparation. You should consider how many times you have done this and look up the undiscounted Anytime Single fare for the journey actually taken. Multiplying the one number by the other will give you an indication of a likely amount they could...

I’m sorry, but I don’t think you’ve really grasped this at all. The requirement to buy before you board is not new. The majority of fares dodged will be for shorter journeys where people don’t expect to be challenged. It would not have been unreasonable for the penalty to have been charged...

I was typing a reply when @Fermiboson and @WesternLancer 's useful replies were also posted, so I'll skip most of what I was typing to avoid unnecessary duplication. The exception is to reiterate the advice above: your stepdaughter would be best advised to make payment. I appreciate that this...

I did think it was odd. Sorry, I actually meant to kill that line once I saw your further reply appear as I was typing, but forgot.

This is already a thread, already in the right subforum, and all about this issue, so maybe simplest to stay here. @390123 I appreciate the desire to get hold of all pertinent information and to protect your stepdaughter, but I think it has, in the end, distracted from the matter at hand. Your...

High demand on cross-border ICE services means waiting until the day of travel to make a reservation is unlikely to be a good idea. Understandable why you might infer that from the URL given but sadly incorrect - seat reservations will be compulsory during the OP's expected travel dates...

The Finance page is asking for information that will be used to calculate your fine. I'd advise against reporting an outdated (and higher) income here as it might increase the fine amount.

This used to be called German Rail Pass and sold directly by part of DB, but now DB link through to the Interrail one-country pass.

At this point you'd be relying on the goodwill of Eurostar. The NightJet might well run too late to make the earlier connection, and there is no formal connection protection on Eurostar as a result of this delay. OP's option 2 is far more resilient. Nearly two hours is a lot of time to make...

It is *possible* that they have made a mistaken assumption at some point, and are treating this as if you held no railcard at the time of the journey in question, and therefore looking at it as if you’ve only acquired a railcard when challenged. As to how best to handle that with them now, I...

For a digital railcard, they’d have the details of the transaction used to buy it. The relevance is: their behaviour/approach is more what you might expect if the railcard produced *wasn’t* valid at the time of the journey.

Sorry, this is an important point and the previous question (and therefore answer) are unclear. Did you purchase the railcard before, or after, the time at which you were asked to show the railcard?

Was this for a one-off journey or have they done this multiple times?

My apologies, I'd got drawn into the minutiae of the journey taken and missed something important.

You're correct about that restriction and I will amend my post. I notice that there is a specific 'unpublished restriction' for arriving at STP before 1004. Someone more knowledgeable than me will have to intervene to tell us if the TOC can use an unpublished restriction intended for a journey...

https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/travel-information/travelling-in-london/ suggests you should be fine: Think the time restriction is still an issue - more in a newer post be However, your ticket was not valid to arrive at St Pancras on any TOC before 1002. Restriction 4A is linked to from your...

It's annoying that the booking sites don't recognise it though - this prevented me being certain enough to use the route for a longer journey a few weeks back.