Southern Rail unfair fine? Help?

LinasPilibaitisisbatman

benv wrote: »

i would of paid the £1 extra if i could, i spent every penny i had to pay as far as i could, if i'd had got off at burgess hill i've no idea how to walk to haywards heath since there are no streets that lead there.. i would of had to walk across country on a route i do not know.

if it had been the case that i bunked the fare then i wouldn't have bothered posting here, also it was agreed with the ticket people at the station that i had done everything i could of to pay the fare and recieving a penalty was out of the question.. they catogorically stated at the station that it would only be the trip between burgess hill and haywards heath that i would be asked to pay.

So you went out without enough money to travel or you spent your travel money on something else - whose fault is that exactly?

the rest of your post is irrelevent, if you had enough money to travel the rest would be irrelevent

The penalty fees have to cover the costs of implementing them and also act as a deterrent, if you could get away with just paying the difference when caught, many would just not pay at all and make an excuse on the rare occasions they got caught

chuckley

u chanced it got caught. so u have to pay.

u dont actually have a leg to stand on. also on southern trains they have 'penalty fare' notices. plus southern is harssssh in general... they dont even have toilets on sum of their trains.

dzug1

The only thing that is possibly unfair is that he was (allegedly) told that he wouldn't have to pay a penalty. Either he misunderstood or management overruled local staff.