Rail query

Michaelchoice

Hi Everyone I am new to this and not quite sure of procedure, however the gist of it is..
My son bought a return Portarlington to Galway student ticket and used the first portion port to Galway. He got a lift back with a friend to do a days work at ploughing championship. Got onTrain to return to Galway. Inspector fined him 116 Euro for invalid ticket saying he couldn't use it again this way. My son didn't know this apologies and offered to pay the fair. Inspector refused told him to appeal and took his ticket... Thereby mean I g he couldn't use it for the journey he said it was valid on. We appealed and they refused we feel without even reading our appeal. Have we any options? I would really appreciate some help. Thanks everyone

flyingsnail

A return ticket is only valid for an out and return journey not two outward journeys, I don't see any grounds for an appeal. Inspectors often tell people to appeal to calm the situation.

http://www.irishrail.ie/media/conditionsoftravel1.pdf

return tickets

are valid for one outward journey from “Station From” to
“Station To” on the date of issue only and a second journey in the
opposite direction only within the period of validity shown on the ticket.
Ordinary return tickets are not valid for two journeys in the same direction.
The return portion of an ordinary return ticket is only valid if the outward
portion has already been used in respect of the outward journey;

savagethegoat

you've no options. He shouldn't have done it and will have to pay up.

seagoebox

To be reasonable, the travelling ticket inspector would view this correctly as a travel irregularity, your son was actually trying to use a return ticket for two single journeys in the same direction, for which two single tickets should have been purchased. So I very much doubt if any sort of appeal would be entertained... sorry, but you may pay the penalty and move on.

Okon

It's all in the name surely; a return ticket is a ticket to return to where you started... not set off again from the same place on a different day!

Of course, had the OP's son caught the ticket inspector on a really good day, he might have just accepted the price of the second trip and issued a single journey ticket, confiscating the invalid return ticket. However, he was correct in his actions and there are no grounds for that to be overturned.

savagethegoat

Okon wrote: »

It's all in the name surely; a return ticket is a ticket to return to where you started... not set off again from the same place on a different day!

Of course, had the OP's son caught the ticket inspector on a really good day, he might have just accepted the price of the second trip and issued a single journey ticket, confiscating the invalid return ticket. However, he was correct in his actions and there are no grounds for that to be overturned.

there is only the Son's word of course that he did as he says. He may have used the two halves of the ticket and chanced using the ticket a second time. I expect that might be IEs suspicion