Invalid rail card

[rhrh]

Hello so today I was leaving the station and they asked for my rail card. I had no clue that on my train like app it was under 16-17 saver and has been for a while. I travel back and forth from uni so I’ve spent around 400-500 on tickets which should have been 1000. Will I be fined for all the tickets or just the one today. And how much will it be worst case cause it was a genuine mistake I had no clue

 

[AlterEgo]

Do you have any sort of railcard at all? How old are you?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

And how much will it be worst case cause it was a genuine mistake I had no clue

@RHDH. Welcome to the forum. You genuinely didn't realise that the tickets you were buying/using were quite so cheap / half price? Which train company are you dealing with? = GWR or SWR?

Worst case, if you engage with them appropriately, is that you get asked to pay a lump sum calculated at the undiscounted Anytime Day Single fare rate, for each and every journey you made using inappropriately discounted tickets. (A return trip = 2 singles). Plus a three figure investigation and administration fee added on top. Possibly no allowance either for whatever you've paid already.

Might not come to quite that, but IMHO it's a definite possibility.

 

[rhrh]

Hi there thank you for your response. And I know it sounds stupid but I did notice it was discounted but I assumed it was student/uni prices as I set the account up before uni started. So is what your saying is that ill have to pay all those tickets full price or just the difference that I owed plus the fee or maybe they won’t look at the other tickets and just get one today

 

[rhrh]

Do you have any sort of railcard at all? How old are you?

I used to have the 16-17 saver then didn’t use trains but I’m guessing it must of auto put it back on and never really bothered to check when I was buying tickets as I’ve never had a problem

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@RHDH. Welcome to the forum. You genuinely didn't realise that the tickets you were buying/using were quite so cheap / half price? Which train company are you dealing with? = GWR or SWR?

Worst case, if you engage with them appropriately, is that you get asked to pay a lump sum calculated at the undiscounted Anytime Day Single fare rate, for each and every journey you made using inappropriately discounted tickets. (A return trip = 2 singles). Plus a three figure investigation and administration fee added on top. Possibly no allowance either for whatever you've paid already.

Might not come to quite that, but IMHO it's a definite possibility.

And yeah gwr

 

[Trainman40083]

Hi there thank you for your response. And I know it sounds stupid but I did notice it was discounted but I assumed it was student/uni prices as I set the account up before uni started. So is what your saying is that ill have to pay all those tickets full price or just the difference that I owed plus the fee or maybe they won’t look at the other tickets and just get one today

Full price single tickets plus the admin fee, is the norm.. No reduction for anything paid for invalid tickets.

 

[eoff]

I have a feeling that your best way forward is to not reveal any further information publicly (particularly anythng that identifies the stations/journeys) and wait and see what happens.
But I'm no expert so perhaps others can comment.