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What we generally suggest at this point is that you try to work out which journeys you fare dodged on: the railway have their own idea of when you did this, so if you come up with a list which is much the same, they will probably agree that you are being 'open and honest', and let you settle out...

Welcome to the forum. My feeling is that - given that you were caught fare dodging - you have now done the right thing, and there's nothing more to do until the railway get back to you. While I can see why you might want to explain to the railway that you didn't fare dodge every time, I don't...

Given that the incident was on 13 May, it's most likely that the railway have dropped the matter in that if they want to prosecute they need to tell the court within six months of it happening, and those six months are now up. But you also need to allow a bit of time for the court to contact...

Welcome to the forum. After 11 or more months, it sounds as if the railway have decided not to pursue you. If they were going to take you to court, they would have needed to do that within six months of the alleged offence (so by some time in last June) - and if they did take you to court but...

This is normally important - but not in this case. All the OP wants is for the railway to go away and stop bothering them. As long as the railway goes away, it's irrelevant what they would have pursued if they didn't go away.

In a strict sense, you don't have to do anything: ultimately if the railway want to take you to court over the matter, it's for them to prove that it was you rather than someone giving your name and address. But in practice, there's quite a lot to be said for not standing on your rights, and...

It's also worth bearing in mind that Delay Repay comes from the train company that delayed you, rather than who you bought the tickets from. If I've understood the thread properly, it doesn't make a difference here as the ticket was bought through Avanti, and it was their train that was late...

The demand, I think, is there. So either the demand will be met or the railways will have to cope with constant cries of why touch-in / touch-out can work in London but not between Liverpool and Manchester (or Leverpool and Leeds, or whatever journey someone is happening to make)

So if paper tickets go away, so will the complexity? Realistically, the day of the pre-bought ticket for local journeys is almost over - regardless of whether it is really made of paper, or is an e-ticket or similar. Where pre-purchasing will remain is for longer distance journeys, in that...

Given that the analysis seems to be based on tickets bought online, what cues would be used to trigger a warning for dodgy sales as opposed to legitimate ones? Or (neither unimaginable nor necessarily undesirable) should any purchase with a Railcard lead to a pop-up 'to use this ticket a valid...

Thanks.

At the risk of going off at a tangent, have we seen any TOCs do this? We know that TfL do it, but I am less certain about other operators. And it's a point which has been relevant a few times recently when posters ask what could happen when the railway has detected multiple purchases of...

Return from Oxford to Leamington Spa and a West Midlands Day Ranger?

If I were WMT (which I am not) I would be arguing that purchase of discounted tickets by someone not entitled to use the discount is strongly suggestive of use of those tickets by someone not entitled to do so. That being the case, I would want to investigate further - and because I wouldn't...

That, I think, covers everything that TfL will expect to see. As you were advised in post #4 above, TfL will prosecute in a case like this so there’s no point in trying for an out of court settlement.

It does seem to me that, at the very least, this was unfortunate phrasing. Othering someone ('your type of people') could be a step on the road to treating them as in some way inferior - to discriminating against them. But as a lot of posters have commented, the othering here is most likely on...

It's possible, but (in my view) unlikely. The letter is phrased as 'pay or we will prosecute' rather than 'pay and we will cease to prosecute '. From that, it seems to me that the railway (or more precisely ITAL, their agents) haven't looked at the calendar and haven't realised they're out of...

There will be people on this forum who will want to break overnight between Holyhead and Berwick-u-T - but outside of us, how many normies will actually be suffering from this loss of flexibility? I'd take a shot that the number would be quite close to (or actually on) nil. The thing is, we now...

Welcome to the forum. There will be others along later with more specific advice, but one of the things we always say in this situation is that you should talk to a union rep as a matter of urgency. You need to know what your employer is likely to do so that you know how big a problem you have...

Welcome to the forum. One of our rules (which I think is in writing somewhere) is not to be judgemental, and we do try - although we don't always succeed. But even without us importing our own moral values, we live in a world where the railway has substantial legal powers to use against people...