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If you buy an off-peak ODTC then you will not pay extra for travelling on National rail between 16.00-19.00 Mon/Fri. If you use an oystercard on national rail between those times, then it will not cap until it reaches the peak time price cap. So on some occasions it makes more sense to buy the...

Seems you made a mistake, as a travelcard 1-6 would have only cost £8.50. Were the barriers in operation at Feltham upon your return journey? If not I can see where you wouldn't have been aware. Seems to me yet another case of our complicated fares system.

Tom, you don't say how often you travel. Is a season ticket not an option? I would suggest, if you make the same journies on the same days of each week, than to buy the tickets on line in advance. Then they can be collected from the TVM at Winnersh. Unfortunately just because the guards...

Think you'll find it is true. FGW RP staff do not issue P/F to SWT passengers and vice versa. You should know as appeals are handled by different bodies. Who have informed us that if any person lodges an appeal as a result, they'll win. For instance if someone travels from Didcot...

Only if it is issued on the relevant TOC's penalty fare pad/paperwork. In otherwords they've got to carry a pad for each individual TOC. If you travel on a different TOC to the RPI's TOC, then appeal and you will win!

No misunderstanding on my part, the following taken from TFL site: 3.16 Oyster route validators for use when travelling using pay as you go on your Oyster card - these can be identified by a pink card reader: They are located at a number of interchange stations. If you pass an Oyster route...

I would go to court and argue my case. It seems you made a genuine error. You could have purchased a rail ticket at Clapham Junction with your Electron card via a TVM (or the ticket office if it was open, which I know it wouldn't have been at 5am). So for Southern staff to say you didn't...

No, unless you swipe the "pink" validators at Richmond, but by doing so you'll be charged for travelling through Zone 4. As for the OP, I can't see any reason for travelling from Waterloo to Wimbledon via Surbiton, something not quite right there.:-?

I'd be interested to know where the OP lives, let alone how he got through the ticket barriers at Raynes Park? :roll:

You're entitled your opinion, just as I am to mine. We are both answering as we see things. However I'm an RPI, as such we work from an MG11 downwards not up. Only reason I can see for going from a P/F to MG11 is for false details and that doesn't appear to be the case here. Perhaps the...

The Revenue Protection member of staff, I feel was in the wrong. You can't decide to go from a PF to an MG11, purely because soembody can't pay the £20 there and then. This sounds like a member of staff who can't be bothered to take names and addresses and just wants full payment everytime...

What if it's an "Impersonal Season Ticket"?

Funny how originally they cancelled the booking. Wonder if it had anything to do with engineering works planned at Reading that weekend, and extra demand for services from Waterloo? Or am I being cynical?

Windsor & Eton Riverside to Windsor & Eton Central! 5 minute walk, or 4 trains, the choice is yours.

They should touch in though. Season ticket holders for some reason believe they don't have to touch in or out, but they should. Too many times I see season ticket holders not touch in, then they aren't able to touch out (& go into a negative balance) because they didn't touch in. To...

With this situation a lot depends on what is contained on the oyster card. Season Ticket holders are the worst for not validating oystercards, they assume that they don't have to touch in. Also there are quite alot travelling from outside London with short seasons on oyster as they don't get...

So would they be off-route and therefore not liable to a p/f? Or are they over-distance from CLJ, in which case they would be?

You can request that they pay the fare owed, however you cannot force them to. For example, someone travels Mortlake to Richmond (SDS £2.50) without a ticket. The penalty fare is £20.00, however they maybe requetsed to pay the £2.50, which could be deducted from the p/f, leaving a balance...

Penalty Fares Regulations state: 7. Circumstances in which a penalty fare may not be charged. 7.3 An authorised collector must not charge a penalty fare under rule 6.2 if any of the following circumstances applied at the station where the person joined the relevant train. d A person...

My advice for anyone being issued a penalty fare is.. pay the fare that is owed, this should be deducted from the penalty fare amount (£20 or greater). TOC's will not prosecute any P/F's in this instance as the fare has not been avoided. I am an RPI, I tell passengers they can pay all...