Authorities including the Department for Transport as well as train companies will now have to agree a list of all people whose convictions could be overturned by the end of September.
A hearing later this year will decide which other prosecutions can also be declared void.
Judge Goldspring said he thought four train companies were involved in the process, but was not able to identify them.
However, in a hearing last month both Northern Trains, the government-owned operator, and Greater Anglia apologised for using SJPs.
In a summary of his judgment, Judge Goldspring said: “Parliament did not envisage these offences being prosecuted through the SJP.
“They should never have been brought through that process.”
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