Penalty fares schemes

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Dear Passengers’ Council,

I understand that, under the Penalty Fares Rules 2002, train operators are required to send you a copy of their penalty fares schemes.

Please provide me with an electronic copy of the penalty fares schemes for (a) Chiltern Railways, (b) Virgin, (c) South West Trains and (d) Southern Railway.

Yours faithfully,
Steve Elibank

We are pleased to acknowledge your email and will contact you within 10
days. 

 

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Dear Mr Elibank,

 

Thank you for your email dated 15^th February 2012.

 

Passenger Focus is the statutory watchdog protecting and promoting
passengers' interests.  I should explain that our role includes dealing
with customer complaints that the rail industry has not been able to
resolve satisfactorily.

 

Therefore, the details you require can be found on the National Rail
website – [1]www.nationalrail.co.uk – or by phoning National Rail on 08457
48 49 50.

 

 

Thank you for contacting Passenger Focus.

 

 

Miriam Pye

Passenger Team Adviser
Passenger Focus
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Dear Ms Pye,

My request was submitted under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (which applies to Passenger Focus) for information which you hold. You are legally obliged to provide this to me within 20 working days of the request, or to provide a refusal notice citing the section of the Act under which you refuse to provide the information.

I look forward to hearing from you within 20 working days.

Yours sincerely,
Steve Elibank

We are pleased to acknowledge your email and will contact you within 10
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Passenger Focus
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e [1][email address]

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Sorrelle Wagster,

Dear Mr Elibank

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - information request

 

Thank you for your request for information. You may not have specified or
referred to the above Act in your request, but we are treating your
request within its provisions.

 

The date we received your 16 February 2012  
request was:
The target date for responding 15 March 2012  
to you is:
The unique reference number    
allocated to your request is:
PF0-51670-4G8Y

 
The person who has been asked to    
deal with your request is:
Sorrelle Wagster

 
His or her job title is: Senior Passenger Team Advisor   
His or her email address is: [email address]  

 

Please see the explanatory notes below. These are designed to explain how
we will deal with your request and answer any immediate questions.

 

Thank you for contacting Passenger Focus.

 

Kind regards

 

Sorrelle Wagster
Senior Passenger Team Adviser
Passenger Focus
The independent passenger watchdog

7th Floor, Piccadilly Gate, Store Street, Manchester M1 2WD
t 0300 123 2175
f 0161 236 1574

e [email address]

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You can also contact our passenger contact centre on 0300 123 2350. The
centre is open 8am - 8pm Monday - Friday and 8am - 4pm at weekends.

 

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 – explanatory note

 

Dealing with your request

 

In normal circumstances we should be able to (a) confirm or deny that we
hold this information and (b) if we hold it, send it to you within the
statutory timescale of 20 working days. You should note however that the
Act defines a number of exemptions which may prevent us complying with
either of these duties. We will explain if this is the case, and if we
apply the ‘public interest test’ to our decision.

If the information is readily available by other means, such as on our
website, we will point you in this direction and would not generally
expect to reproduce it specifically, and we will tell you this as soon as
we can.

 

Charges and fees

 

Generally we do not charge for requests of this type. In exceptional
circumstances, where the costs of complying with your request exceed the
appropriate limit set by law – currently £450 for Passenger Focus – a fee
may be a fee payable for the information you have requested. In this case
we would issue a fees notice and the fee must be paid before the
information is processed and released. The 20 working day time limit for
responses is suspended until receipt of the payment, and you have three
months in which to send the fee. If you do not provide payment within
three months you request will lapse.

 

If you have any queries or concerns about our process, please contact in
the first instance:

 

Senior Information Risk Owner

Passenger Focus

One Drummond Gate

Pimlico

London SW1V 2QY

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Further information about the Freedom of Information Act is available from
the Information Commissioner at:

 

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Sorrelle Wagster,

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Dear Mr Elibank

 

Freedom of information Act 2000 - information request

 

Your request for information has now been considered and the information
requested is attached.

 

Please note that Virgin Trains do not operate a Penalty Fares scheme.

 

Please also note that the information was too large to send in one email
so will be sent under cover of two separate emails. This email contains
three attachments (Chiltern Railways Penalty Fares Scheme, South West
Trains Penalty Fares Scheme and Freedom of Information Act Complaint
leaflet).

 

If you have any queries, please contact me.

 

In the event that you are not satisfied with this response, please refer
to the attached ‘could we have done better?’ leaflet.

 

Kind regards

 

 

 

Sorrelle Wagster
Senior Passenger Team Adviser
Passenger Focus
The independent passenger watchdog

7th Floor, Piccadilly Gate, Store Street, Manchester M1 2WD
t 0300 123 2175
f 0161 236 1574

e [email address]

w www.passengerfocus.org.uk

Follow us on Twitter [1]@passengerfocus

You can also contact our passenger contact centre on 0300 123 2350. The
centre is open 8am - 8pm Monday - Friday and 8am - 4pm at weekends.

 

  

 

 

 

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Sorrelle Wagster,

1 Attachment

Dear Mr Elibank

 

Freedom of information Act 2000 - information request

 

Your request for information has now been considered and the information
requested is attached.

 

Please also note that the information was too large to send in one email
so will be sent under cover of two separate emails. This email contains
one attachment (Southern Railways Penalty Fare Scheme leaflet).

 

If you have any queries, please contact me.

 

In the event that you are not satisfied with this response, please refer
to the attached ‘could we have done better?’ leaflet.

 

Kind regards

 

 

 

Sorrelle Wagster
Senior Passenger Team Adviser
Passenger Focus
The independent passenger watchdog

7th Floor, Piccadilly Gate, Store Street, Manchester M1 2WD
t 0300 123 2175
f 0161 236 1574

e [email address]

w www.passengerfocus.org.uk

Follow us on Twitter [1]@passengerfocus

You can also contact our passenger contact centre on 0300 123 2350. The
centre is open 8am - 8pm Monday - Friday and 8am - 4pm at weekends.

 

  

 

 

 

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experiences of the way that planned engineering works are
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We have carried out new research into passengers' views and
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Key findings from the report include:

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* 55 per cent of passengers would not travel by train at all
if part of the journey was by bus
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