Recent content by jymiee

Have you read the role profile on the LNER careers website? It (correctly) has no mention of assisting with the catering service, just leading the team that deliver it.

That’s not very accurate. Although the job role description contains a lot of catering related stuff and yes you are the leader of the crew on board your main duties are fulfilling the role of the guard. You’ll see yourself dispatching the train, liasing with driver and control, revenue duties...

It’s LNER’s equivalent of the guard/conductor role. Different depots have different rosters so hard to say what the work/life balance is like. At my depot it’s amazing - lots of time off often 6 days in a row without using holidays. Salary just shy of £40k once qualified training takes around 4...

Forgot to add these diversions too: - Ladybank to Perth - Perth to Dundee

Up to date list for LNER Edinburgh: Traction: 800/801 Routes: - Edinburgh to York (including via the High Level Bridge at Newcastle) - Edinburgh to Aberdeen (including the Fife Circle via Dunfermline) - Edinburgh to Perth via Stirling (Lodge link guards sign Perth to Inverness) - Edinburgh to...

Surprised nobody has mentioned the class 92 hauled sleeper...

Yep, despite being promised that the % reservation/advance ticket sales level has been adjusted accordingly (which I guess is as much as LNER can realistically do) to keep it the same as the heritage fleet I’ve noticed a few occasions now where first has been full with passengers standing. Worth...

Just had a check and it looks like you’re correct 800108 was the booked unit. I know there are certain restrictions surrounding 80X trains and NCL P4 but I won’t go into detail for the sake of the crew involved as this may become an investigated incident.

As others have said it depends on the employer and their use of the job title. Most job applications on recruitment pages will tell you either way or if not either get in touch with the relevant recruitment team or failing that try forum members who work for the TOCs in question.

I’d put some but not all of my money on it being to do with acceleration and the available paths.

https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/Y31126/2019-11-28/detailed 1E01 The Flying Scotsman from EDB (P5) to KGX (P1 on this occasion) calling only at NCL (P3) on Thursday 28th Nov 2019. In this scenario only the left hand doors would be used. As for distance some fellow forum members are bound...

I'm led to believe it actually involved LNER asking the DFT to join them for a day at KGX to witness firsthand the struggles experienced with the available luggage space before they seriously entertained the idea... I don't think it's too surprising however given the DFTs wish to cram as many...

Coach G is also reservable. Take today's 1E14 for example which has 58/72 seats in G reserved. There are no fully unreserved coaches on board however staff have suggested it. Wouldn't cause too much harm to use the standard portion of coach K (half a carriage) which for the most part remains...

This is a very specific one but if you alight a Southbound LNER HST at Newcastle from the south end of coach G on P3 at Newcastle you'll find a substantial gap. I've heard stories of staff (guards mainly) ending up on the ballast in between the train and the platform while dispatching from P3...

There isn’t, no. The only thing that might show it is if you connect a device like a smartphone or tablet to the on train WiFi and on the login page there should be a “seat finder” where you can view a plan of all the carriages and their seats which are colour coded red, yellow and green...