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Please correct me if I am wrong but there isn't a Thames tunnel between Stratford and St Pancreas. The tunnel does go under the Lea at one point.

In this case full honesty is going to be the best policy. That means you doing a full audit of evasion and arriving at a figure. You definitely do not want a fraud conviction.

Worth mentioning DLR have very few stations with barriers and I get asked for my card on almost every journey.

I'm surprised then that in the name of pragmatism they haven't suggested drivers wear crash helmets to protect themselves next time a tree enters the cabin.

Must be a nightmare seeing Boris Johnson on a daily basis.

The Stratford toilets are an absolute disgrace. Combined with the lack of any toilets in West Ham station and Barking facilities often being closed and you have a toilet desert. Males at West Ham often urinate off the end of the C2C platform which will shortly be directly in line of sight of the...

At Marylebone a couple of days back I used realtime trains to identify our train to the Midlands a good ten minutes before it came up on the screen. The platform info was also shown on Trainline. Paradoxically if people start keeping their eyes on their phones other advertising becomes redundant...

Did they take a photo of or confiscate the doctored card?

The departure and arrival board could be included on the front page of the stations WiFi access page and therefore theoretically accessible by someone who doesn't even have a data package or SIM card.

My son and I did a personal record sprint last Saturday from Marylebone Bakerloo up the escalator, total dash across the forecourt onto the platform and the polite Chiltern platform staff advised us the train wouldn't open it's doors for us and was ready to depart. If we had got on it would...

I wonder how long it will be before online options are promoted at stations.

The standard weekend timetable has two trains an hour going Barking. Stratford, Liverpool Street.

Perhaps if train announcements were restricted to necessary information people would interrupt their conversations to listen. All too often they are security slogans/ messages or statements of the obvious.

Fraud Act 2006 offences can be heard in the Crown Court and therefore as no time limit is stated in the legislation there is no time limit for when a prosection may be brought. With summary only offences, ones that can only be heard at magistrates, the default time limit is six months. The six...

Or the hard of hearing or with limited comprehension skills.

No it isn't. The definition was changed with the introduction of the Fraud Act 2006. One of the primary elements for the offence is the use of a dishonest false representation. I am not sure using multiple email accounts is a false representation. However, if they have ticked a box saying they...

If I were a case officer faced with that letter I would immediately escalate the case for full investigation. If I were a magistrate I would start looking for the heaviest of penalties. Just write a standard admission and apology without lies or excuses.

Although I agree this is an expression of what many already suspected it does raise a whole raft of potential criminal offences if even some of the allegations are correct. This being the UK in 2023 they will probably never be investigated or prosecuted, with at best an absurdly expensive lawyer...

According to the Sunday Times today some of the activities of HS2 have been extremely whiffy. https://archive.ph/2023.10.21-231326/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hs2-billion-pound-coverup-cost-files-investigation-skzv2nxwj

I ended up tapping in and out at Hayes as had a few minutes to spare waiting for a Shenfield train. Unfortunately not in a position to report whether this was necessary to avoid the additional charge when using an oyster with annual zone 3 to 6 travel card. I suspect not. Total fare was £1.80 to...