Recent content by AlexS

Hello again from member #6 - I do still keep an eye on happenings but refrain from posting so as to avoid any risk of falling foul of a social media policy somewhere :-) I thought my post from December 2014 might add a bit to the thread for those interested so here it from someone who was...

As far as I'm concerned they haven't - the 'recent resignalling' such as the GE/GN Joint line are still rubbish.

I shall (very briefly) return from the cold waters of Lurker's Shore to say that this thread inspired me to look at my old files and PMs and wow - how far has it come. Some of the staff have remained constant since I was an admin here many, many, moons ago and it is to their credit. The...

Driver, guard, train dispatcher, signaller, trackside workers, fitters, controllers - the list goes on and on really for safety critical staff!

Of course an often forgotten part of disruption is that some staff normally found on platforms and concourses then have to start hanging around in offices to coordinate things, pass on information to their colleagues regarding train movements and other issues and override auto announcements...

Well, last time I was over in Anglia land, the first guard I ran into (going to Berney Arms as it happened) had 'conductor' on his badge. Going from Berney Arms to Reedham, the chap had 'senior conductor' on his badge and when I got back to Norwich later the same chap was just dispatching on a...

It's consistently rather late anyway so I doubt it will make much difference, timekeeping seems to be quite awful on these services.

Not necessarily true - Greater Anglia's 'Mainline' guards are senior conductors and the 'Local' guards are conductors, which was the BR system. Also on some TOCs trolley services etc are operated which are still under the control of the guard. 'Train manager' is a job title and 'guard' is a...

On the freight side DBS have driver depots at Leicester and Toton.

My local RMT is to be honest, crap. I am a member but very few of my colleagues are (despite being in a front line stations grade) because you hear very little from the union - in fact it's pretty much a taxi drivers union at our branch. We have a newish local rep so it remains to be seen what...

Perhaps one way to look at it is that with signallers controlling ever larger areas, in some cases it is not desirable for them to focus their attention on what could be repetitive shunt moves (particularly when forming up trains) when a shunter could be provided for marshalling purposes anyway...

Last time I bothered looking several of them were disappearing into the undergrowth, so wouldn't be surprised to find they've been nicked and weighed in :lol:

Probably not as that would involve accounting for petty cash and require the tickets for accounting purposes etc which all get very complicated. Whereas the taxi provision, certainly at my TOC, is always on account by 'Cab Line' so no cash is involved.

Nottingham to Lincoln - various departure times, presumably governed by the number of stops and the booked passing time over the flat crossing.

Anyone silly enough to risk a 1 minute connection to a train or even 5 minute connection to a bus at that time of night deserves no sympathy, whereas the OP allowed plenty of time so it seems entirely reasonable to take the short delay.