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Give over. Nobody has ever said anything about buying from the booth before, no warning or notice, nothing, so it simply has not been enforced until recently.
As Arctic Troll said the excess fares office is off to the far left of the station. I hadn't been to the barriers yet. I got off the train, walked straight over to the excess fares office and asked for the ticket for the journey I just made. That's when I was pulled to the side.
Doing that...
Thank you for the information. The letter states I have 14 days from the date of the letter to pay, which is conveniently already 7 days in! Must have used the slowest post known to man.
If I have to pay I will fight for it back.
It does indeed have an office and machine. Like I said I was running late and jumped on which, yeah, I should have got there earlier. But to be honest I didn't see an issue with it. I made no attempt to fayre dodge, didn't lie about my origin and was attempting to buy the ticket when I was...
I just received a £80 fixed penalty notice in the post.. I'm not happy at all and have sent a dispute email to Northern Rail. Anyway here's the story if anyone knows what my chances are..
Back in August I got to Horsforth train station (I was travelling to Leeds its 3 stops) just as the train...
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