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    Stuck in Stockport!!

    https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/contact-us/delay-repay-compensation/ Whilst this won't directly cover the cost of your bus fares, the train you were on was more than 60 minutes late at Stockport before it was eventually cancelled. With that in mind and referring to the compensation table above you...
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    Northern Unit Refurbishments

    Not being deliberately negative here, but even what's a refurbished unit still hasn't received LED bodyside hazard lights nor HID/LED cab end lighting units. This really doesn't scream the transformational change the company have been promising. Nevertheless the colour scheme whilst...
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    Bread Box at Manchester Piccadilly station?

    https://www.networkrail.co.uk/manchester-piccadilly-station/shops/ This details the food offerings on the station currently, save for Thorntons and Boost Juice Bar which are former tenants.
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    GM Traincard

    deleted as the answer was already provided
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    Lights on Roof of Pendolino

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    Door controls: Do they do anything?

    Whilst not technically a phone on a Voyager, door panels which contain a guards key switch have a small microphone built into it. When the guard is 'keyed in' it automatically turns the mircophone live and is directly heard by the driver, so if a situation occurs which requires the doors to be...
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    Class 158 on the Northern Rail Hope Valley stopper

    Piccadilly Link 1 drivers, pre creation of First/Keolis Transpennine express and the hiving off of 'decent work' signed 158s for the purpose of driving Manchester Airport-Barrow in Furness services, so Piccadilly RRNW, North Western Trains, First North Western drivers without question drove 158's

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