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As far as I can make out, you did reply within 21 days of the first letter, so that's dealt with. As their email to you said, you now need to wait for them to reply.

I don't think the permit regime is yet in force for Southport. But on my (limited, layperson's) understanding, the conditions of the permits are effectively a matter of negotiation between the authority and the operator. So assuming that the 347 will be run under a permit, presumably a...

To add to this, the most likely outcome is that the railway will ask for payment of the fare, plus an admin fee of maybe £150. If your brother doesn't get offered that, he could be taken to court. But the punishment there would be a fine (which with other costs would most probably add up to...

It's also worth noting the final paragraph of the letter. Ignore the bit about the risk of being prosecuted for fraud: while theoretically that can happen, in practice it doesn't. But prosecution under the railway bylaws or the Regulation of Railways Act do happen: if you were convicted then as...

How much are these services actually used? I've never explored them so while there would no doubt be manufactured outrage if they were withdrawn, I don't know how much real harm would be caused. (I can imagine some of the outrage coming from drivers discovering they had no option but to spend...

Playing with the National Rail journey planner, it looks to me as if getting the 1702 from Liverpool Street will allow the official time to cross London, still has the £24 fare, and gets to Colchester at 1758. Or do you anticipate this to be significantly more crowded (and so less comfortable)...

But that was for a railway penalty fare. This is for whatever scheme is used for the West Midlands trams. We can't assume that what works for the railway will work for the trams.

Not me either, so you're not alone

No - it was £50 and upwards (top value offered was £150). And the Amazon offer now seems to have ended.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/oct/08/the-guardian-thursday-quiz-general-knowledge-topical-news-trivia-268 Question 11: (Mods - please move if someone's already said this, or it should be somewhere else)

If it helps, you can squeeze a few extra characters by replacing 'National Rail conditions of carriage' with 'NRCoT' (why 'T' at the end? Because for the last few years they've been called the 'National Rail Conditions of Travel'), and you could replace 'compounded the problem' with 'made things...

It's worth remembering that you want something from them i.e. for them to take a fair look at your case and realise that a PF should never have been issued. And (as far as I know) your case will be dealt with by a human being. It's not a good idea to annoy that human being by standing on what...

Even Conference teams have home grounds.

At least you got a reply - I had to rely on my credit card showing cancelled purchases. I've lost track of precisely what I tried over the weekend, but having initially bought an online card, when I moved to physical cards that went through, so maybe a change of medium is enough to get past the...

I'm not sure that they do frequently threaten criminal prosecutions. It's not consistent with their revenue protection policy (https://www.gwr.com/-/media/gwr-sc-website/files/policy/revenue-protection/gwr-revenue-protection-policy-august-2026.pdf) which on page 12 says (among other things)...

At this stage, there's no need to do so: the 'clock' on the discount stops while you have an appeal in (although I think it restarts once you get a reply so for example the clock will run between you getting a reply to your first appeal, and you sending off your second appeal). As long as you...

The gift cards I have bought with this offer have loaded to Uber Money in my 'wallet' in just the same way that previous ones have, and I've not yet had any problem spending from my 'wallet' on train fares, so I'm assuming that I will have no problem spending this tranche.

Failing to give your name and address is a railway byelaw offence, and so is at least potentially a police matter: (source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a79c14b40f0b66d161ade8c/railway-byelaws.pdf) But that's probably a fair assessment of the practical position. What does...

This may not be comparing like with like, but DuckDuckGo's AI tells me It's really not terribly viable to argue that Liverpool airport should directly compete with Manchester (and so have rail links equivalent to Manchester). I have always said that I don't want Liverpool to be a second rate...