What to expect from a travel incident report.

[sasdaniel]

Hi. Currently moved from rugeley, West Midlands to Manchester. The normal station where I was suposed to take ticket was Gatley. But nobody came in the train so I did a train ticket evasion. When I reached Manchester Piccadilly, I noticed that inspectors are waiting outside to check the tickets. So I bought the ticket in front of them. They obviously noticed and put me aside to talk with someone.

I told the officer that nobody came in the train so I bought the ticket when I came down of the train. I gave him the address from rugeley, because the address from gatley is temporary.

He told me that I will receive a letter and just respond to that letter.

On the ticket I received there are loads of threats of prosecutions and so on. I’m stressed at maximum because of this stupid mistake I’ve done….

What should I expect from the letter? Currently I’m in Manchester but tomorrow I’m going there to pick it up. Doing jail and paying thousands of pounds for this idiotic action of mine would be the worse thing could happen at this situation.

 

[Grumpy Git]

Fist of all, you need to obscure your name and address from the second photograph.

 

[sasdaniel]

Thank you. I edited it

 

[John R]

Gatley station has both a ticket office and a ticket machine according to Northern's website, so the argument that "nobody came on the train" won't carry any weight I'm afraid.

You'll probably get a letter from Northern in due course, which, if I understand their normal process, will offer you a type of fixed penalty resolution, but will be in the order of £100 plus the fare you avoided. You won't go to jail though, and it won't cost you thousands of pounds. It' very unusual for cases like this to go to court if this is the first time you have come to the railway's attention.

 

[Elecman]

Is there somebody at the Rugeley address that can deal with the letter and send it to you quickly when it inevitably arrives as you only have 14 days to respond to Northerns letter if you want to deal with the matter without being prosecuted