Recent content by Harbon 1

What I've found with freight is that there is generally not a lot of work content in some shifts by passenger standards, but that can work against you. The shift I struggle with the most is a 2000 book on, booking off at 0400. However, the start of the shift is travelling passenger. Your work...

If they genuinely cannot afford to pay more then they'd normally look at other ways of keeping thier workforce happy for a smaller increase. Problem is they are forcing tocs to take conditions away from staff. I'm sure many on here would see a smaller increase as perfectly acceptable with a...

If only the government had allowed the TOCs to negotiate a deal in the first place. Would've been sorted early last year, probably without any strike action at all. Considering they admitted its cost them more in strikes than even the unions demands whould have, shows the real reason they are...

Ah that sounds like I've got slightly confused there then, having it on the power handle makes much more sense!

Interestingly the move with the standard european cabs has been back to a single brake controller for both dynamic and train brake. I'm not sure when the change actually took place but the newer Traxx 2s (such as the 146.3s) which were introduced I think around 2011/12 had this design, and I...

:lol: maybe that should be put in with the next deal????

More fatal accidents make a railway safer then? Why is it? The thread was opened on 5th August 2020. Which other incident would have been relevant to "Is the UK 'overdue' a serious rail accident?" considering it happened 7 days later? Fewer safety sytems, poorer signalling, dreadful...

What a strange leap you’ve made there. Compared to Europe I’d (and everyone else would) say we have an extremely safe network. Is it as safe as it has been over the last decade? No, else we wouldn’t have had a deadly derailment. Have we taken steps to improve ourselves as a result? Yes. So...

We had a passenger death for the first time in 13 years, so yes they are less safe than they were. I never mentioned a cause of that derailment. I used it to put a rough date on the thread I mentioned, and the importance of the question the thread raised after the crash. The question I...

Having not enough staff to provide a lookout and therefore not being able to visually inspect each track, and instead looking across from the cess, was one of the factors leading to the Hatfield derailment. They couldn't see the cracking from across another line. Then there was the overstretched...

Reduction of staff both station and maintenance related are written into the "deals" offered by the government. What else is happening? We already know what happens when you stretch maintenance staff too thin but thats the NR deal's issue. Help with boarding a passenger in a wheelchair or...

We can safely assume they arent planning on improving the travelling experience and amenities for passengers, howewer. "There arent enough passengers using the railway so we're going to make it slightly harder to use, much more unpleasent and do less maintenance to save costs" Yeah that'll...

Splitting tickets isn't even the issue I was thinking of. I don't know whether I can buy a super off peak and it be valid, or an off peak. Whats the difference? I don't know. I'd hazard a guess most people wouldn't think twice about buying the cheaper return, only realising it isn't valid for...

Paying for travel is fine. How many underground tickets aren't valid? Can you buy tickets to the whole country from a london underground ticket barrier? I like to see myself as quite profficeint at buying tickets, but I'll still ask at the office sometimes because I don't always know what the...

Thank you!