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If you plead guilty, then by definition you'll have a criminal record! If you plead not guilty, it seems pretty certain you'll be convicted anyway (since you did what they accuse you of) - and so, of course, you get a criminal record that way too. The difference is likely to be that if you plead...

Years back, when the through Paris-Milan services were running, it was certainly possible to do London-Paris-Turin-Florence in a day; I've never done it in the opposite direction, but presumably it'll be viable both ways once the Fréjus tunnel is back in business. Yes - Paris-Italy sleepers are...

But are you mixing up St P capacity being eased if some new services are lower-capacity trains, with the lack of paths for more trains? The need for a path doesn't depend on the train capacity.

Yes - when I've bought a ticket from a machine at an Italian station in the past, for a short journey which has intercity-style train options as well as local trains, if you select the faster train it's a higher price (but it it doesn't necessarily require/include a compulsory [seat]...

"BTDTGTTS" ??

Remember that the rule is that you must be able to present your ticket when asked. Having bought it isn't sufficient - you need to be able to prove that at the time you're asked. Whether you've left a paper ticket in your other jacket, or your phone has a glitch which stops it showing an...

If I were in your situation, besides the Stat Dec, I'd be asking GTR for clarification of what offence you're supposed to have committed - since you seem not to have committed one - and then pointing out that you didn't commit that offence. By asking them for an out-of-court settlement they'll...

Thanks - I was overlooking the Jubilee link! I had visions of some convoluted route starting with NR track from Queens Park...

Because Switzerland isn't fully part of the EU customs set-up? Switzerland isn't in the EEA.

What route would Bakerloo stock normally take to reach South Ealing? It must surely be pretty convoluted with several reversals, using more than one NR route on the way? (And what would they be testing there on that old stock?)

I've used my Brighton PlusBus on Big Lemon buses as well as B&H; I think it covers Compass too. I'm not sure that Southdown, as also mentioned, still exists! (It doesn't work on the longer-distance coastal services to Worthing etc etc [route 700?], run by whichever other company.)

When I travelled London-Paris-Lausanne-Brig a few years back, the Paris-Lausanne leg of the journey wasn't via Geneva. I'm not sure that stabling/customs options at Lausanne are relevant to the idea of a direct London-Geneva service.

Woops - I'd forgotten this thread was about European Sleeper (but has veered off to general Italy sleepers) - so replied irrelevantly to the last post. Now deleted.

The OBB ticket at the bottom of this graphic seems to be a standard format for lots of national/international tickets in Europe these days - and is in turn, I think, derived from the way the information was laid out on the coupons in the traditional clip-of-papers-in-a-piece-of-cardboard CIV...

Ah yes - Prosecco affects my cornering too...

Maybe the history of the oblong ES ticket size (also used on some continental railways) is that they're the same size/shape as the old international CIV tickets. On these, on a long journey involving a ferry crossing for example, there might be several coupons (all of that size) hand-written at...

Pointing to successive stations in Wales all starting Ll... is surely cheating!

All we need now is for it to be extended at the upper end to somewhere near the rail station there! I remember the first time I used it, going up from the centre for Trieste, at dusk one day many years ago - and thought I'd been dumped in the middle of nowhere, with nothing I could see to...

I think there was a thread on this topic a year or so back; I remember mentioning Mitcham Eastfields myself as an example then.

Ah - thanks. This of course adds to the evidence for SWT that it was all very deliberate (though I guess that isn't disputed). So it's just a case of having to wait for the letter from SWT and take it from there.