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You insist on not getting it. It is not nonsense because I am talking about, as you certainly well know, the wriggling and squirming in what-iffery that ultimately means it's all or nothing, full facilities or not. Of course, all-or-nothing is silly but equally obviously, the problem is the...

Other than being: (a) impossible - because "adequate" actually means "cover the remotest possibility the most imaginative minds can drum up", as this thread already shows (it completely precludes unmanned stations) (b) almost completely ineffective (because "no excuse" is meaningless so long...

This is a particularly silly example of the forum getting itself wound-up in the most esoteric and theoretical stuff it can contrive. Take a guess at the number of incidents that would pan out differently than they do now, were the railways to accurately advertise the ins and outs of online...

As one does, I checked the Mail for the full accurate story :lol: Nonetheless it would seem she was given an UFN.

Some things are really best left unsaid (on the Internet) :lol:

Despite the wording of this caution (and not really knowing personally) I would nonetheless be very very surprised if, in practice, "do not mention when questioned" effectively covers not saying anything at all. I suppose it "really" refers to changing ones' story, leaving things out etc.

Talk about looking for trouble where it almost certainly doesn't exist. (To OP: this is terrible advice).

With regard to the bolded bit in particular, you have misunderstood or been misinformed. There are two types of railway ticketing offence which are prosecuted. The much more common and less serious type (a Byelaw prosecution) is not recordable. The more serious type of offence under the...

The fare types are generally easy to understand... but it's often not the fares that matter in practice. It's the restriction codes (of which there are dozens or hundreds, and which are impenetrable to public and most staff alike). I'm not claiming to know the answer, and it may be that what we...

Hehehe, looking for a 1-day a week annual season between Ryde Esplanade and St Johns Road, costing 50p but getting you a Gold Card, then? :)

Yeah, except it's a slightly less heinous offence so it gets a quick, painless lethal injection rather than hanging, drawing and quartering.

You're not facing a criminal record even if you are prosecuted, which on the basis of what you have said seems unlikely (it is likely you can settle this before it reaches court). But first you need to be clearer and more specific about what happened with the inspector. It is likely you were...

Excellent post, which should be resurrected each and every time comparisons between apples and oranges of radically different first class services are attempted.

I think most would say that physically doubling-back is probably not necessary, although purchasing the extra single probably is. Some say that many individual rail staff wouldn't have a problem at all with you stopping short (i.e. no additional single needed) although this is surely...

This is an astonishing thread, even for this forum. The various blind defences of the driver being offered would be laughable if the situation wasn't so serious, and the notion that a "quiet word" rather than going public and/or reporting the driver is barely less ridiculous.

Guildford to Waterloo, woke up approaching Liphook (at nearly 1am) :) Waterloo to Staines, woke up at Windsor & Eton Riverside. This was the best as the crew were taking the unit back to town as an ECS move. Dumped me in the front carriage, lights off, brief unscheduled stop at Staines. This...

The implication seems to be that reading the full judgment might make one less mad. I would suggest the opposite is probably more likely.

Our nationwide system for signaller-to-train communication failed this morning, knocking the entire network out for two-and-a-half hours. Every train in the country ran into the next station and then stopped. I thought the response was quite impressive for a weekday morning. I was on the way...

Oh yes. On a southbound you'll often find one of the crew having a good old prattle on the approach to Esplanade, St Johns Road and Smallbrook Junction (at a minimum).

The fourth word should probably read "obligation" and the distinction is important. I would argue there quite possibly is a need, as many cases we see on here are compounded by innocent mistakes later in the journey that may well have been avoided had the guard been sought. I don't know if I...