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Then they need to understand the concept of a happy medium too.

£1.00 per ticket, or as a transaction charge? I think per ticket fees have to be included in the cost per ticket displayed initially, but a single transaction fee can be shown in the final summary before payment.

Am I right in thinking this track would also have been used when the Waterloo-Waterloo East link was still there?

I understood what you meant perfectly well. My question (which was answered) was why should the car hire company care about that as long as they get their money?

Fair enough, that makes sense.

Sure, but that's the customer's problem to deal with. If there's enough money in the account for the hire company to take the pre-authorisation why does it bother them whether it's credit or debit?

You're aware of the concept of a happy medium, I presume?

So a significantly different situation was handled in a different way? That's useful to know, thanks. Ah yes, nothing says "non-disruptive" like driving a car along a platform in an open railway station. 1786908287 That's a lot of words to say nothing of any substance at all.

The person stamping you out would also scan your passport through their computer wouldn't they? That should record you as leaving and hopefully feed through into the same system that the EES uses to check if you're within the limit.

The driver's toilet needs are presumably never going to be met by on-train toilets anyway, presumably, given that they can't just get up and go when the train's moving, so they're always going to take their breaks when the train's stopped be it at staff facilities or public facilities - as such...

You might want to give Addiscombe DIY just down from the tram stop a try, I've heard that they're a good old fashioned hardware store.

True or false: If the government company had paid for their drivers to travel to non-driving appointments, they would have made more money than they did when the government company was issuing fraudulent documents to allow the drivers to travel without charge? The fact that they were subsidised...

No. This is going back to when revenue risk sat with the TOCs, which were private companies, not government departments. It was the government stealing (there are no scare quotes required) from private companies. For some reason a lot of people on this forum don't seem to think this is an issue.

That the headline doesn't reflect the details of the story doesn't in itself make it a non-story. The story is that (a branch of) the government was systematically defrauding private companies. Not in any way a non-story. And again, the idea that the drivers didn't know what was going on is...

A government owned company was defrauding private companies. How is that a non-story? It's their job to know the details! And whether they knew the details or not, they were fully aware that they were presenting a document stating that they were going to be driving a train that they were not...

Were they aware that presenting a diagram showing a service that doesn't exist in order to gain free travel was not legitimate? I'm going to come down firmly on the side of "yes" to that.

The claim is that drivers were (for whatever reason) requesting the managers to provide them with the fake diagrams. If - and I stress if - this is true then they were absolutely perpetrating the fraud. At best, by travelling using what they undoubtedly knew to be fake diagrams they were going...

They didn't benefit, but if what we're told is true then they appear to have been complicit in it, and if it's true that they asked the managers to create the fake diagrams then they were actively involved. It's actually hard to see what the benefit was for anyone involved really - I'm certainly...

Would revenue staff be in any position to be aware that there was anything illegitimate going on? It sounds like the drivers were given some kind of document saying that they were travelling to a place to collect a train - there's no reason for the revenue staff to be aware that the train didn't...

"Labour’s much-vaunted Great British Railways" Hmmm.