Student fined £129.50 after sitting in 'wrong first class' of train to London

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Student fined £129.50 after sitting in 'wrong first class' of train to London
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Theo Griffiths was fined £129.50 after sitting in the wrong first class section of a train from Boston to London.

Student Theo Griffiths became a victim of an ‘overly complexed’ rule A teenager is having to ‘scrape’ together £129.50 after he was fined for sitting in the wrong first class section of a ‘very full’ train. Theo Griffiths, an 18-year-old student from Boston, Lincolnshire , decided to take the train to London King’s Cross because the journey was ‘too long of a distance to drive.

The northerner complained: ‘It is really unacceptable to expect a student to be able to afford this disproportionate amount for the crime of getting a seat on a super busy train that I’d already paid a silly amount for.

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