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Welcome to the forum! No further action will be taken in respect of the incident where you were caught. We have seen examples of train companies auditing the online ticketing accounts of people who have been issued a Penaty Fare and contacting the person to ask questions about it if this...

Welcome to the forum! Were you issued with a Penalty Fare - ie £100 plus the fare discounted to £50 plus the fare if paud within 21 days or were you issued with a Ticket Irregularity Report? Can you post a copy of what you were given in this thread but do cover up any personal details and case...

Welcome to the forum! It seems that you have done a fair bit of research on your case so there's probably not a lot more to add. Many people would say that a case of fare evasion over an eight month period should end up in court, if it doesn't you have to ask how serious something needs to be...

Welcome to the forum! Cilhtern are one of the more robust train companies when it comes to revenue protection. If they have scanned your ticket then it is possible that they will audit your online ticket purchase history. If this indicates ticketing irregularities then they might contact you...

Welcome to the forum! It's a shame you didn't post here back in Fenruary when you were first caught.... However wrong it might feel travelling without the correct ticket is a criminal offence and if the case ends up in court you will not win. If you plead guilty (or are found guilty) you will...

Welcome to the forum! Six occasions of travelling with a short fare doesn't sound accidental to me. That said, Govia Thameslink are normally one of the more pragmatic train companies at dealing with this sort of thing. What happens next is they will write to you saying they have received a...

Welcome to the forum! Southeastern will write to you in the next few weeks saying that they have received a report and are considering prosecuting you but asking for your version of events before they decide how to proceed. I suggest writing a short, concise reply mantioning the following...

I do a similar trip every year - are you walking the Seven Sisters? An absolutely fantastic walk! I usually buy a return to Eastbourne and then a single from Lewes to Seaford.

On this specific point I assume the station has platform validators rather than a gateline. If so then I don't see an issue but it could be a pratcical issue in the event that @soil touches in both cards and then a revenue block is implemented before @soil partner arrives. If this was to...

Train ticket pricing is getting at confusing as concert ticket pricing. Let's hope the Government's promised investigation into concert ticket surge pricing practices is extended to include the rail industry's pricing tactics, as they seem to be lots of similarities these days.

This is absolutely fine, and something I often do myself. The fare charged is based on the touch in time at the start of the journey, not the service you travel on. All a RPI will be interested in is whether you've touched in. At the end of the peak period it works the other way round so...

I’ve just had an email saying that TfL are dealing with a cyber security incident. Has anybody else been contacted?

Welcome to the forum! The train companies do have access to your online ticket purchasing history and they can and do work together on this sort of thing. All perfectly legal under GDPR as it’s for the prevention of crime. Is the summons the first you heard from Southeastern about this...

Thanks for letting us know. That’s a decent result all things considered.

Cases like this do not get dealt with as fraud. It’s a straightforward case of short ticketing. Chiltern won’t write to the OP asking them to pay a fine. They will write saying they have received a report of a ticket irregularity and are considering prosecuting, but asking for the OP’s version...

Having to write a couple of letters was a thing when Transport Investigations Limited dealt with many of Chiltern's cases. It seems that Chiltern no longer use TIL and consequently they've become more reasonable to deal with. @bobby97 when it arrives, post a copy of the letter in this thread...

Agreed. A main objective of the 16-25 should be to assist getting people back into the office. The problem when ‘here today gone tomorrow’ politicians are involved in these sort of decisions is everything is done for short term interest.

It’s also important that the senior people making these decisions get a balanced view of why these railcards exist, and why they have the restrictions they do. For example, take the 16-25 Railcard. It allows a discount in the morning peak subject to a £12 discounted minimum fare. Some will...

A disgraceful service from Kings Cross tonight. GTR has issued a Do Not Travel after 21:00. Most trains cancelled this evening, disruption now till 14:00 tomorrow with nothing via WGC tomorrow morning. Kings Cross are now taking a leaf out of Euston’s book. The 22:02 is in platform 10 but is...

One would hope that internal staff guidance matches customer facing rules and requirements but then we are talking about the railway… Interestingly, the GTR easement we’ve been talking about on here has been updated recently, so it isn’t a case of it being outdated or something that was posted...