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Given that you’ve come to the railway’s attention before for not having the correct ticket, you may need to work a little harder than usual in persuading GTR that you are not going to continue evading the correct fare.

Unfortunately you have two choices. Either pay up, or face prosecution and be found guilty (because you are), which will result in a conviction (which most people are very keen to avoid), and a fine and costs which are very likely to exceed the offer made to you. It’s galling when it was an...

3-0 to Arsenal I gather… 1787004277 I’m sure it would have been held back if penalties were needed. And it’s not that tight as there is plenty of time for many of those in the South end of the stadium lower tiers to get to the station. And GWR would wait until it was at least reasonably full...

No, that’s what they are currently in the process of procuring, but they won’t be available until after 2030, as the press release clearly states.

Unlikely, as they won’t have any spare EMUs to run on it.

Well if the full complement needed for the Pontypridd to Bay service will be in operation on Wednesday then I’d say it’s not at all unlikely that one or two will venture further north by the autumn solstice. And that particular poster was even suggesting that the whole fleet should be...

Great to hear. Given all the doom and gloom we were hearing about the units from one contributor (who has gone strangely quiet for the last month), it's really positive that there seems to be slow but steady progress in rolling the units out.

You can, but from cases we see here it is likely to cost you several hundred pounds. And there is no guarantee that they will be able to change the outcome.

Does your brother have a 26-30 Railcard? You may get asked to explain any other purchases with a railcard that he has made on the account, as they will initially suspect you have been using those tickets too.

You could record part of the conversation as evidence too.

I’m a regular Oyster user, and fwiw pay a considerable amount of higher rate tax on my pension income (which I don’t begrudge). And in good health and below state pension age. And I doubt I am the only one. So I dispute that only the poorest and most vulnerable use Oyster.

10. Easily usually, as most fare dodgers fail to realise the electronic trail they are leaving and use the same booking engine for both.

Is it an offence? Surely not if the ticket was bought before departure? Proving it might be more difficult though. I would take a picture of myself at the platform at the time the ticket was purchased as evidence in that situation.

I seem to recall that GWR drivers taken on after a certain date do have Sundays in their working week. Is that correct?

Aren’t all the 756s already trimode?

The earliest graduates on the egregious Plan 2 9% repayment loans graduated 11 years ago. Plan 1 loans also repay at 9% and started in 1998, but are less of a problem as the amounts were lower and the debt is extinguished after 25 years.

The 756s are tri-mode, which makes them more useful in terms of operating in a non-diesel mode. Especially if some carefully chosen isolated sections of wiring are added.

There will be no new TfW services west of Cardiff. The Bristol services will be extensions of existing services that currently terminate at Cardiff.

Not necessarily @al78. If you have young children then there is an immediate total loss of childcare benefits at 100k, which means an effective significant drop in net income at that point. So many earners who think they are at risk of just tipping over that threshold will be heavily...

Of course I can’t identify alternative paths. I don’t work in the rail industry. There’s no need to be passive aggressive. All I am saying is that if an established TOC, supported by its national government, wants to introduce new daily services through the tunnel which, (according to your...