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I think that's fine. It's not beyond criticism (it could be a lot shorter, and the railway won't be interested in your university placement: I would lay good money that thousands of other students manage to get to their placement without fare dodging) but the tone is OK. It's good enough and in...

And for going to Gatwick, surely there will be a fairly substantial proportion of passengers with luggage who won't be that keen to change trains.

This bit is basically saying 'don't do it again - even if you never did it in the first place.' So if you always make sure you have the right train ticket, you shouldn't have any problems with WMT.

All of these options seem to involve someone official-looking rocking up on your doorstep and having to be dealt with there and then. It seems to me to be far more convenient to head off the problem by the simple expedient of sending a polite letter.

As several people have argued otherwise with their reasons why, could you give us your argument for staying with 'University'?

Not if you write they can't. I would respectfully* suggest that we lay off the paranoia. While we see some cases where the railway has made a mistake and pursues someone who has done nothing wrong, I don't recall ever seeing one where they are pursuing someone vindictively. In the scenario we...

Let's imagine for the moment that someone had given their real name and address, but then decided they didn't want to engage with the process. When they received a letter, what would they do to put the authorities off the scent? And what would the authorities do next? And how does this differ...

So if that's the Great Eastern station, what station do I go to for my Greater Anglia train?

I don't think we can be too sanguine. The ticket was bought from Trainline, and we know that Trainline share information (when asked) with railway companies. It's also the case that the railway have about six months to investigate things, and aren't obliged to get back to the passenger...

As we're dealing with a friend of an established member, I hope I can be a little more robust than when dealing directly with a distressed norm who has come to us for help. The first question is whether your friend was out of order: did they (accidentally or deliberately) fail to pay their...

I think it's worth pointing out that the quick and easy way out of this is to pay GWR what they're asking for. Unfortunately that's not a cheap way out. So the OP needs to consider the alternatives, which involve rounding up convincing evidence to counter what GWR has found. As has been said...

Isn't there a rule of thumb that says that if Oxford does things one way, Cambridge will do it another (and vice versa)?

This is broadly correct. Most of the suggested alternative names are potentially worse than just 'Cambridge'. (It's not terribly central, but why would 'East' be more obviously the main station than 'South' or 'North'?) - and other places (I'm thinking particularly of Reading) have operated...

It's worth knowing there are two sorts of court: - the criminal courts, which start with the magistrates' and Crown courts. Those deal with crimes, and you plead 'guilty' or 'not guilty'. If you plead 'not guilty' then you have a trial and the prosecution have to prove (in the traditional...

I assume you object to option (1) on the same basis, what with 'central' also being an adjective. If it's less accurate, then how is it helpful? It does seem to me that the place to start with station names is whether it communicates something helpful to users.

And there's a persistent worry on this forum (even on this thread) about people coming from Blackburn and so on whose train terminates at Headbolt Lane: presumably they could also continue their journey and arrive in Liverpool at Central. If they can't cope with 'Headbolt Lane' are we really...

That would be a good thing to include.

Last night you were cross that you hadn't had a response. Now you're cross that you have had a response: there's no pleasing some people... But joking aside, this is somewhat disappointing. Have they now got your first name right? I ask because that would show that they had received your...

Kindly provide an analysis of how the benefits of these changes would outweigh the costs.

Fwiw, the National Rail app will find it - but on clicking through to TPE to buy it, it comes up with an error message. If I choose the Anytime Short Return on National Rail however, TPE then lets me select the off-peak day return - but the journeys are flagged as being overtaken by a later...