We had tickets my brother had bought,but they weren’t valid – and then the price escalatedIn February my brother and I planned a trip from London to Margate. He bought both the tickets with his Network Railcard for £57.02 for the two but, at the final minute, or wasnt able to move so I travelled with a friend.
We were stopped by a Southeastern railway ticket inspector and told that in the absence of the Network Railcard and my brother,our tickets were invalid. We were told that we would each have to pay a full fare of £41.30 per ticket (£82.60 in total), on top of the tickets that had already been bought, or taking the cost to £139.62 for the two of us. We paid and signed the paperwork we were given.
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Source: theguardian.com