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    Not allowed to board Lumo service because of oversized backpack

    I remember being at Stansted catching a flight with Ryanair years ago and the bag Gestapo where at the gate checking everyones luggage, one blokes luggage wouldn't fit in the supposed carrying on board one luggage limit, so he simpley walked away opened his bag, put on about 4 layers of...
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    Northern RPI and Advance Ticket

    All Northern Guards should just refuse RPI/PFC to do tickets in their trains!
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    TPE Mk5/68 sets.

    The reason the there's a lack of 68s and Mark 5a sets out is due to the following.... Combination of First Group and the Dft..... They have been crew training on the South Pennines for over 12 months now and the amount of services that have run between Cleethorpes and Liverpool Lime St. with a...
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    How should trains to Headbolt Lane be displayed on departure boards?

    xx.xx service to Headbolt Lane. When there was engineering works the other month between Rainford and Kirkby,all the services were advertised as the xx.xx service to Rainford.
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    Network Rail industrial action suspended

    So if I am reading that right if you had four days off every 14 weeks you still wouldn't trigger the new MFA System? It's their system, so you can play by their rules... :lol:
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    Driver training for ice/snow

    And as every Guard had drummed imto them, during Fog or Falling Snow, off to the Box I must go.
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    Larissa, Greece: Freight train collides with passenger train (01/03/2023)

    This is Greece we are talking about.... They spent a fortune building new railway lines to replace the old routes, but the Signalling is still done by 'Red Cap' at the station or passing loop, think 'Absolute Block' type Signalling with a Signal Box at every station and there is a pointsman at...
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    Class 28 workings in the mid-late 60s?

    I have seen pictures of them on passenger services on the Furness line.
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    Train cancelled as "they forgot to rota a driver"

    It won't have been Control that hadn't Rostered anyone, it would have been the Roster Clerk in the Rostering Department. There the ones that do the Rostering. And, like the rest of TPE are suffering with shortages too.
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    Traksy Website

    Our work WI-FI also blocks RTT.... Hugely ironic as we were told by Management to use RTT to check on running times and unit allocations....
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    Larissa, Greece: Freight train collides with passenger train (01/03/2023)

    Why? It's Greece.....
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    Network Rail industrial action suspended

    Why should the RMT call off the strikes? They did that once before last year and the Tory Government and the RDG played silly buggers. Once bitten twice shy, the RMT Should be calling for more strike action!
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    Chiltern in early 2010s - very generous service provision

    One of the reason for skipping High Wycombe is that it is served well by other services from MYB,so you don't want your long distance services towards Birmingham/Kidderminster clogged up with High Wycome Passengers during Rush Hour, similar to Milton Keynes on the WCML.
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    Tesco checking tickets on Southeastern

    I remember being lambasted on here by some for suggesting in another thread that I wouldn't hand over my ticket for inspection to someone not in uniform.... :rolleyes:
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    Did sectorisation improve BR?

    No, shed full of locos 'spare' but can't use those locos as they belong to the wrong sector, train cancelled... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
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