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    Trivia: stations from which one can depart on a direct train in opposite directions to the same town/city

    Does Leicester count since you can go south via Market Harborough or go north via Melton Mowbray and Corby
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    Appalling Treatment by South Western Railway

    “He or She will then sell you the appropriate ticket“ Will they really…? I thought guards on SWR didn’t perform revenue duties…?
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    Changing conditions of carriage/travel

    *insert joke about a quailcard*
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    Royal Train

    Protecting you, or watching you?
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    View forward and old DMU

    I'm willing to be wrong on this, but they're on all tube stock no? They're on the 2009 stock and I'm sure they're on the 1995 too, set into the panel that would be obscured by the passenger's legs
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    Can inspectors check bank cards in real time?

    I found out yesterday that while they can't check cards in real time, when their terminal scans your card, it puts another zero-value transaction on there like the transaction that happens when you touch in in the first place. Then, overnight, when the balances are reconciled and the day's fares...
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    Northern Railway Arriva 'Scrooge you' to customer

    Having worked in customer service for the best part of a decade (make no mistake I’m not trying to claim any stripes for that) I can tell the stress and anxiety almost definitely originates from the expectation of greater goodwill that didn’t materialise. Frankly I don’t see the issue either...
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    Trivia: Which stations have numbered platforms which are unserved?

    Do Wimbledon 6 and 7 have anything scheduled or is it just ad-hoc stops
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    "TfL staff perk that lets housemate travel free 'cost record £42m in lost revenue last year'"

    Even supermarkets like Sainsburys and M&S allow their employees to nominate someone who lives with them to receive the same discount as them
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    "TfL staff perk that lets housemate travel free 'cost record £42m in lost revenue last year'"

    What are your thoughts on this article from the Evening Standard? Article below
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    Class 710 LO

    https://www.citymetric.com/transport/romford-upminster-romford-again-ode-transport-london-s-most-obscure-branch-line-4732?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app "Great news! The Romford-Emerson Park-Upminster line will be getting new train stock. One four-carriage Crossrail-style train will ferry...
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    First autism friendly railway launched by Northern

    I disagree. St Pancras and other stations have complimentary wheelchairs available to passengers. You can just as easily ask if this equipment really has a positive effect on peoples lives and help them use the train? Or if it is just a way of getting a bit of cheap publicity, but yet very few...
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    First autism friendly railway launched by Northern

    not sure how I feel about wheelchairs tbh. I am sure there are people who suffer really badly with this problem and I want them to be supported and helped but would it not be better to equip someone to develop proper coping mechanisms to help them function "normally" in the real world rather...
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    Class 710 LO

    Any clues when the 378s are leaving the GOBLIN? It'd be nice to jump up there and see both of them while it's still there
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    Bus Shelter built Not on a Bus Route

    From the article; The twice-daily bus service running along a street in Rotherham was axed in March. But that didn’t stop officials spending £6,000 of taxpayers’ money on a shelter with seats and a roof in May. Red-faced council chiefs have since apologised for the gaffe and have had to...

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