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They could just standardise the lot and call it, I don't know, GTR? :D

Other PRM mods have been made though, even on the units with the bogs locked out.

I've spent many an hour at Crewe late at night waiting for the last Preston bound Avanti service, which is often late. And there's nothing open. Just the (often busy!) waiting room and that's it. To be able to sit and have a beer or something more substantial than a Mars bar Fri the vending...

I was sat near a group of RPIs on the Bromley North branch the other day who were talking about various methods of stopping fare dodgers. One of them said that they should block Bromley North and Sundridge Park simultaneously, but then they wouldn't be issuing any Penalty Fares as people would...

Is there a list anywhere of which units are still to enter service?

Marvellous, thanks a lot.

That's saved me a lot of messing around, thanks. The 387s are HEX ones sadly, hence the request.

Can anyone see if 466004 or 466023 are out today please? Also 387133, 387138, 387139 and 387141 if possible?

Part of me at that point would have been inclined to respond with similar awkwardness if the drink had been made. They have the choice of either a) accept your Sterling bank note, b) give you the drink for free or c) waste it.

It was at Tile Hill. Got caught up in this myself.

I tried, and failed, to pay with a Scottish banknote at a SouthEastern TVM at London Bridge a couple of years back. Put a tenner in to buy a Travelcard (the railcard discounted Travelcards were exactly a tenner) and it wasn't having any of it. I had a Scottish note refused in an Aldi in West...

Fair. That's true on all counts. Vaping on a train is at worst likely to be met with a telling off by the traincrew, but far more likely to be accepted as common practice. Whereas vaping on an aircraft is highly likely to see Police attention on arrival.

In fairness, neither do the Anglo-Scottish TOCs, with the exception of TPE. And as for the comment below yours about misbehaving, people clearly do get arrested on the railway for misbehaving or else the British Transport Police wouldn't have cause to exist.

I've boarded at Newton le Willows a few times, never been alone in doing so. Pretty much all railway staff or airline staff though!

Can definitely make that work, cheers.