Recent content by michael74

Worked it today, already got a nice film of grime on the windows... Very bright inside and smells of fresh paint but either way you can roll a t**d in glitter but it's still a t**d...

No as in capacity of the line. With the time taken to travel between Barnstaple and Eggesford (30 minutes) a second platform at Barny is pointless because by the time a unit travels up to Eggesford and the unit comes down from Eggesford you have had a unit sitting in Barnstaple for an hour...

Barny trains used to run to Exmouth but when things went Pete Tong you often ended up loosing a whole service as they are only hourly, at least having the Paignton trains running to Exmouth better options for recovery. I was told that the old Yeoford platform and land is in private hands and...

It's about capacity, with only one passing loop at Eggesford you can't increase frequency, you can get a 3 car unit in every platform (except Newton St Cyers) and a 4 car except St Cyres, Portsmouth Arms and one other I forget and one platform (which escapes me) is really really tight with a 4 car.

Then you need to stump up to extend platforms or retrofitting SDO, and the added hassle of said SDO and getting PAX into the right carriage therin..

A second platform at Barnstaple isn't going to be any use unless they put in a second loop between Eggesford and Barnstaple, it's usually only a 5 minute turnaround.

That's the line to Barnstaple not the Dartmoor Line (to Okehampton).

Search buzzer codes on this site. I only ever remember three or four of them, rest are stuck to the back of my ID badge on my lanyard.

I (a guard) delayed a train (by many minutes) recently until I got a clear PTI put it into the Delay Reporting App , not a single word said and nor would I expect one. The Merseyrail James St incident is highlighted to us in training and we are reminded the guard went to jail.

I think you need to have a word with yourself. As for the TM, inappropriate.

Then if true the guard requires an interview sans tea and biscuits.

(If true)..... Why didn't the driver just flash his duty authority to travel card?

With respect you are very wrong, the Padd arrivals are not deliberately timed to miss the Exmouth departure, they are just not, just as they are not deliberately timed to be a convenient connection for the Okehampton or Barnstaple departures. At a station such as Exeter you are dealing with...

It's not deliberate just because it's the same company the dispatcher does not have the authority to hold an Exmouth departure due to a late running Paddington as this will delay the next Exmouth-Paignton (which could easily delay another Paddington - Penzance and a XC service on the sea wall...

Happened to me the other week, it was so last minute my driver didn't have time to tell me.... Que slightly panicked pax and a slightly confused guard :lol: