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  1. Fawkes Cat

    Penalty fine

    There's a value to hope. And if there's no hope, that's false value. So how is it worth making the railways incur a cost when no one will benefit?
  2. Fawkes Cat

    Penalty fine

    OK. I'll bite. How is it in anyone's interest (most obviously, the appellant or the train company) to make an appeal with no chance of success? I'll happily accept that there may be different opinions of whether a 'compelling reason' exists, but where it's obvious that one doesn't, how is it...
  3. Fawkes Cat

    Delay Repay claims rejected

    I am not a lawyer, but given that your case was resolved in your favour, I'm not sure that a court would think that you have anything to litigate. It might be supportive evidence for someone in a similar situation, but nothing more.
  4. Fawkes Cat

    GTR Thameslink Witness Statement Receipt - Wrong Tickets for 44 Journeys

    As long as the version of your name that they have is close enough to your usual name to make sure any correspondence gets to you, you don't need to worry. Although this isn't what you asked, for the benefit of anyone else who looks at this thread, a misspelling of your name won't stop the...
  5. Fawkes Cat

    Transport for Wales Rail - Fraud Enquiry - 'Misusing Multiflex Tickets'

    My view is not to do this: 1) OP wants something (a settlement) from TfW: so it doesn't seem like a good idea to be trying to demand something else as well 2) As the OP points out in post #7 so sorting out the app won't benefit the OP (although it would presumably benefit users elsewhere in Wales)
  6. Fawkes Cat

    Notice of intention to prosecute (wrong railcard used)

    Welcome to the forum. Your reply is, I think, fine, and I would expect that Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) will agree to let you settle out of court for the fare you should have paid plus the costs of their investigation. There's no need to send a copy of your Network railcard as what you have...
  7. Fawkes Cat

    New tube map?

    Isn't there an argument that what matters to the passenger is the speed and number of stops on a journey? How the passenger saloon is attached to the ground (steel wheel on rail Vs tyre on tarmac) should surely not be the decisive issue. I'll admit to not being familiar with Superloop. But if...
  8. Fawkes Cat

    Witness statement explanation

    Although note that the opening post now notes that the poster had been penalty fared on a couple of previous occasions: this may be a late edit of that post, but is confirmed in post #3. The usual process is for the railway to ask you for your side of the story. Very occasionally (perhaps if...
  9. Fawkes Cat

    HELP! Prosecution letter without original fine letter.

    Welcome to the forum. It would be really helpful if you could show us the correspondence your partner has received (anonymised so the whole internet doesn't get to know his business): that will help us know exactly what stage the process is at, which train company is involved and so on - which...
  10. Fawkes Cat

    Settlement offer over a year after the incident

    Thanks for this extensive summary ( an oxymoron I know, but it's what is needed at this point). However, it does demonstrate that we don't have a position that GWR will be unable to deny: that's what we think, and they have made it abundantly clear that they think something else. (Of my...
  11. Fawkes Cat

    Short Fare, Invalid Rail Card

    If it turns out that the whole thing went to court without you knowing about it, there us a procedure for you tomake what is called a 'statutory declaration ' so that the court case can be rerun. So if (a) the railway gave tried to take things forward AND (b) all the letters never reached you...
  12. Fawkes Cat

    Short Fare, Invalid Rail Card

    This looks as if it's about the same incident as your previous thread, so I will ask the admins to merge them so everything is in one place. On your substantive question, you will have to wait to find out if the railway follow things up. It seems you had your ticket on your phone: scanning it...
  13. Fawkes Cat

    Govia Witness Statement

    That, I think, is fine. As long as you include your case reference in your letter, you don't need to send a copy of what they sent you as they will already have that on file. I haven't read back through the thread to know if they have your current address, but if they don't, add a note at the...
  14. Fawkes Cat

    Settlement offer over a year after the incident

    Perhaps someone with more patience than me can go through the thread to check, but I suspect that we haven't established that at all. Unless someone can point to precedent (proper precedent, from a superior court which would bind lower courts) saying this then all we have is the combined view of...
  15. Fawkes Cat

    New tube map?

    Having more line variations and showing more are (close to?) contradictory: we already have dark blue for Piccadilly and pale blue for Victoria, red/pink for Central/H&C, grey/black for Jubilee/Northern. So what other colours should be used, or what patterns in the line? It's perhaps worth...
  16. Fawkes Cat

    Penalty Charge Notice Mereseyrail - Car Park Penalty

    For those of us who are fairly local, would you be prepared to share which station this car park is at? We may have enough local knowledge between us to be able to comment on whether it was a legitimate place to park.
  17. Fawkes Cat

    GWR standing between first class carriages

    The general consensus is that passing through first class is fine - and there are some circumstances where it is near to unavoidable: if you're looking for the large toilet on a TPE Class 185 then unless you are in the small standard class area by the loo, then you will have to walk through...
  18. Fawkes Cat

    GWR standing between first class carriages

    By the letter of the rules, the RPIs are right. Per the National Rail Conditions of Travel (https://assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e8xgegruud3g/77fuBWp62YPSrGwBP1mNQX/5f912e6484a2dc7efbad3b4ed0c9b383/National_Rail_Conditions_of_Travel_2024.pdf) : (my italics) Whether this is the right practical...
  19. Fawkes Cat

    Penalty Charge Notice Mereseyrail - Car Park Penalty

    Welcome to the forum. Merseyrail has its own byelaws (although I think they're identical to those used on the rest of the railway): looking at https://www.merseyrail.org/media/35kmdcek/merseyrail-byelaws.pdf, I think you're in breach of byelaw 14.2(iii) on page 9 of the pdf. Byelaw 14.4(i) on...
  20. Fawkes Cat

    Transport for Wales Rail - Fraud Enquiry - 'Misusing Multiflex Tickets'

    Some rather overly brief wording on my part. At greater elaboration: When presented with evidence including the wording of the advertising of the ticket, and having had their attention drawn to the implications of the wording by a competent counsel, I would expect a judge in a civil court to...

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