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Here is a good read which sums up pretty much what I have been trying to say (don't worry its just a short article). http://www.govyou.co.uk/section-5-3a-of-the-regulation-of-railways-act-1889-travelling-on-railway-without-paying-fare/

Family reasons, or of what little I have left of it. I was away for the summer prior to the incident, when I got back and the night before I left for my journey, I was told that a family member of mine had passed a few months before hand, which I wasn't told about. This led to me staying awake...

Oh my goodness... I said in my first post that TIL wrote to me. What I've been saying for the passed three days is that the inspector said that CrossCountry would write to me. I'm sure what I have said comes across as unbelievable, and I know its not my decision on XC prosecuting me. The...

So what, just go see a solicitor, have them look over everything I've sent and received, then try letting the solicitor negotiate something?

I'm sorry you have come to this decision, and I completely agree with you. But its all I have - you have to understand this

So by the sounds of it, Guilty is looking like the only outcome. I'm writing one final letter explaining everything again, and including my written witness statements. I'm also writing this "It is at this point that I thought Mr. Harper would have understood my decision given my circumstances...

I have a reason as to why I wasn't awake. Look, if I could go back and buy the ticket he proposed, or got off at Cheltenham and gone back to Sheffield I would! I'm trying to deal with it! I have been for the last 6 months! On top of the important university work I need to be doing

No that's not what I think, and I'm not missing the point that I paid for such a journey but actually travelled said journey. But is my daft mistake of falling asleep and ending up somewhere I did not want to be, deserving of paying it either? I didn't want to be there, I didn't want to take...

Of course you wouldn't... But that's why I wanted to go to Sheffield! To meet a friend and travel by car! Yes, in my letters and to the inspector on the day when explaining my decisions and why I could not afford a ticket back. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- This is what I...

He told me when he gave me these times that I would have to purchase the ticket back. That's why I began looking online to see about getting one. Then saw the prices... The amount of times I've said this now... My naive decision, I did not think he would charge me for that, given that I coul...

Ha! Agreed. But can you see where I am coming from? I have come here for advice. I'm not going to a court room for advice... If they do not believe what I say then I can do nothing more but use my witnesses as evidence, then maintain that I have tried to pay for any sum of monies to settle it...

I understand what you're saying, they have been consistent, just what I said in the letters is different to what I said on the posts to help you understand it easier. I feel like I've said a lot of the things over an over again, and I'm getting tired of doing it... just as I'm sure that you're...

I mean in these posts, on this forum!!!! I said on the day "Can I have a ticket to Bristol please" and explained my reasoning for this. That is why I thought he would understand my circumstances and that I could not afford to get back to Sheffield, and that he would just charge me for the...

Put yourself in this situation... You fell asleep on a train, went passed your intended stop, inspector seemed understanding and accepted this reason. A ticket back to Sheffield was too expensive and so you contacted a friend in Bath to ask of a favour. Now if I had gotten off at Cheltenham...

This is how it went: Ticket inspector walked passed me, I stopped him and said "can I get a ticket to Bristol - explained my reasons for this (too expensive to go back to Sheffield and friend would pick me up in Bristol). I never said where I wanted the ticket from. This is where my naïve...

No. This was a statement made after I had asked for a ticket form Cheltenham to Bristol for my friend to pick me up. This was my naïve decision, which I have said to XC and TIL, I thought the inspector would have understood my decision (I get that the fare between Sheffield and Cheltenham would...

I understand this, and this is where they are getting me for correct? But the fact that I this is a first offence, this should have been a good sign surely? There are people out there doing it all the time, probably as we speak.

Sorry you feel this way Dave, please understand, I have been sat here for days on end staring at my screen. I have read over what you mean about the charge in that I didn't pay for the journey that they see me as taking, I am just seeing it as I did not 'intend' to do so, which is why I am so...

But I did pay for the fair that I intended to make. I fell asleep, my mistake. In my first letter I sent to TIL, I said that I have paid the full fairs on all of my journeys for the last 3 years (how long I had been at University, had no other reason to travel by train before that) and that XC...

Okay, thanks for clearing that one up :) but how can I go about this if what I've tried to do hasn't worked. How is it better for them? No. He issued me with the Zero-Fare ticket after I remained on the train passed Cheltenham and asked for a ticket to Bristol. Then he asked me for the sum...