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Is this not what many people in the UK do? Really no. The vast majority of the rail users are honest and do not try to defraud the railway.

Well it is utterly different. The restaurant won’t prosecute you if you don’t pay their corkage charge. Very poor strawman on Furlong’s position.

Ok so you can’t do anything until the letter arrives. They may investigate your journey history and find these short faring incidents. If you want to keep this out of court they will ask you to pay for all the fares you have avoided plus an admin fee - usually around £150. Best to work out...

A lot to take in. First question if they were to examine your booking history, would they find multiple purchases of Luton to Luton Airport parkway tickets?

I would start by calculating how much the railway will asking you for if you do manage to keep the matter out of court. They will seek the standard anytime fare for each journey you made with the incorrectly applied railcard. A return = 2 x standard anytime fare. The money you have already...

If convicted you may not be able to apply for an ESTA and will need to visit the embassy for a visa. It is still not clear what the US consider ‘moral turpidude’. You would take a risk in applying and not declaring it. The USA do not recognise our rehabilitation of offenders act.

Understand that, but you've admitted to short faring and then shared a letter then can identify you by. Good luck with that.

Just thinking out loud. Is the OP sharing the exact text of a reply to a TOC who are currently investigating a single incident of purchase on board, when the OP has admitted short-faring in this thread, possibly not the best thing to do? I’m sure the TOC fare evasion staff do read this forum...

What is your primary intention here? It is to avoid a conviction?

But as the TOC‘s have access to trainline’s data surely that doesn’t really matter if they want to investigate the OP then the can easily do so?

Do you have a link to the thread?

From your initial post: “Type 1 diabetic - Suffers from bouts of irritability and poor decision-making do to blood sugar levels.” It is totally irrelevant. I have been a type 1 diabetic since I was young and understand how I response to blood glucose level changes. They don’t make me, or...

As a type one diabetic who does experience very low BG from time to time I find your ‘excuse‘ that your low BG is responsible for making you abusive to rail staff frankly insulting. It does the diabetic community no good to perpetuate these sort of myths. If you abuse rail staff during a low BG...

They will also add a fee for the costs of investigating you. Usually around £200.

When in a hole stop digging. The tone of your emails have possibly not helped your situation.

Which train operating company are you dealing with? Is it Transpennine?

As a slight aside, if a partially-sighted passenger had fallen it would most likely have resulted in a RAIB investigation. The RAIB also investigate ‘near misses’. Would the TOC have been obliged to report this to the RAIB?

So if you’ve been using the fraudulant railcard for 18 months to get a discount on Selhurst to London Bridge for 18 months you could be looking at a repayment calculation of around £3500.

As you didn’t have a valid railcard the tickets you bought are invalid and the money you paid for them doesn’t count. You need to calculate the full anytime single cost (x2 if you made a return journey) of each trip you made with the fraudulent railcard.

To be harsh, you’re going to need to count them to work out how much you owe. You need to do this as GTR will do a calculation (if they are willing to offer you an out of court settlement) and you need to validate their calculation is correct. From the sounds of things they could be asking for...