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If the consequences of all this are more significant for you you could consider advice or help from a solicitor. Manual solicitors are often recommended on this forum by people who have used them for ticket related cases. You could ring them to see what fee they would charge to help you.

There are other threads related to tail gating on here that you could hopefully find to give you an idea of what is likely to happen.

Good preparation I would hope.

Then to be fair it would be better to state that clearly. The forum basis is that people should at least be given the doubt that what they say is true, and the OP has insisted in their post(s) that this was a mistake, so I'm taking that at face value. Of course TfL might not, but as the OP...

I am not convinced that a) if you know that they are not usually at a station you use when you use it that you then know (b) which other stations they are at instead. b) is not really possible to deduce from (a) is it, given the total number of stations overall?

No - that's the carriage way so they must be the queue for the crossing barriers to open (EDIT - which I now see several others have mentioned) - I know the location.

I meant that in a letter you can use a different form of words that accept you did something wrong by mistake but don't use statements like 'guilty'. Obv if it progresses to formal action / SJPN you would have to make a plea as I understand it - and I can see that at that stage you would - from...

I suspect as a general rule it's not a good idea to write to anyone saying you are guilty of something. You can just send a short response saying you were distracted and failed to touch in, realised this on the journey and approached staff at the destination. Apologise for what happened and ask...

if you are anxious, and if you kept a copy of what you sent, you could send a copy tracked delivery now with a note included saying that you sent the original on x date but was unable to send it tracked or some such (since the post would not have been collected over the bank holiday weekend...

are you referring to the OPs new draft or the original one? 1715936213 Hi - I see you have had some 'robust' comment on earlier draft but new draft much better - couple of thoughts - at the concluding sentence add eg 'if you would be kind enough to consider allowing me to settle the matter...

I'm sure if given the correct contact details abroad (e-mail and postal address aboard) the train company / TIL would presumably correspond with them overseas in some effort to conclude matters and get some money from the OP in respect of the tickets that they deem invalid.

As an aside I would think that including in any letter the point that you soon intend to leave the UK might hasten the chances of a settlement out of court if they realise that taking people to court who have left the UK (presumably long term) isn't likely to increases the chances of them...

Thanks Haywain - helpful points - and yes I agree insisting on the right to use next train as we have seen on previous threads - you are quite right to say might well not be that simple in reality but I assume the OP would not be expected to be left out of pocket or heavily delayed due to...

You do have my sympathy with this one. And the delay being not quite enough to miss the train entirely puts you in a spilt second decision where you then made the wrong judgment call - by giving wrong personal details you are in a much more sticky position than you would have been in my view...

I agree. It's just standard inner city type area with much that goes with that (good and not so good)- but the equivalent in bigger cities would be more ropey I would say. Quick look on streetview shows some of the homes nearby look reasonably desirable in fact. If it had abetter train service...

Just to remark on a superbly researched and detailed post, for which many thanks.

Not a comment on your draft, but You should get yourself a Railcard immediately (ie now) you can then mention that you have bought one to prevent the problem happening again, which shows you have actively done something about the situation.

Just as a rider to all the stuff posted - this wasn't on a date when EMR published on their website that tickets could be used on other days or refunded at no fee or anything like that was it? If so I would expect that to be honored.

I regret not asking more relatives about train travel during the war when I would have had the chance. My late auntie worked as a secretary in the city of london and would have commuted in from Ilford and I assume used the LNER every day for that. My dad went to primary school in Sussex a...

It occurs to me that an option Northern may well use will be one of the 'Fixed Penalty Notices' that Northern often seem to request - which is essentially an out of court settlement by another name - IIRC they are demands for £100, probably plus the cost of a new ticket. If that is offered in...